The Observatory, Volume 56Editors of the Observatory, 1933 Some vols. for 1886- include a special issue: Annual companion to the Observatory. |
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Page 11
... errors in the Greenwich observations or in the tables . We could easily allow an error of 1 : 3 in the middle position of the Moon . The President . Would Dr. Jackson care to add any remarks ? Dr. Jackson . Before I go further I think I ...
... errors in the Greenwich observations or in the tables . We could easily allow an error of 1 : 3 in the middle position of the Moon . The President . Would Dr. Jackson care to add any remarks ? Dr. Jackson . Before I go further I think I ...
Page 59
... error of x is then found on the hypothesis that this most probable value is exact . But later a standard error of the mean square error is found , so that the true posterior probability of x is the sum of those due to a range of normal ...
... error of x is then found on the hypothesis that this most probable value is exact . But later a standard error of the mean square error is found , so that the true posterior probability of x is the sum of those due to a range of normal ...
Page 187
... error from this cause which would exceed the assigned probable error , but it was hoped that it would be possible , from investigations at the Cape and elsewhere , to keep such error satisfactorily small and to form an estimate of its ...
... error from this cause which would exceed the assigned probable error , but it was hoped that it would be possible , from investigations at the Cape and elsewhere , to keep such error satisfactorily small and to form an estimate of its ...
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