Error Distributions in Navigation
- 1 April 1972
- journal article
- forum
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Navigation
- Vol. 25 (2) , 250-252
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300022645
Abstract
Graduating error distributions by families of curves has a long and distinguished history. In seeking a class of frequency distributions which graduate navigational data, Anderson and Ellis are motivated by the well-known shortcomings of the normal distribution which so often fails to do justice to the data in the tails of the distribution. They generalize the one parameter (σ) zero-mean gaussian family to a two parameter (α, β) family which is in fact the Pearson Type VII class. They then observe that this class graduates published navigational distributions very wells.Keywords
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