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Error Distributions in Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

J. B. Parker
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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.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 250 - 252
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1972

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