Allowance for excesses of the error distribution in a comparison of the accuracy of different series of astrometric observations

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Feb 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986kfnt....2...88d&link_type=abstract

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel (ISSN 0233-7665), vol. 2, Jan.-Feb. 1986, p. 88-94. In Russian.

Computer Science

Information Theory

Astrometry, Error Analysis, Instrument Errors, Accuracy, Entropy, Statistical Distributions

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Information theory indicates that classical techniques for estimating the accuracy of series of astrometric observations are suitable only when their errors follow the Gaussian distribution. It is proposed that a generalized standard error be used when these errors have a significant, nonzero excess. It is shown that the failure to take into account the excess in the error distribution sometimes leads to a more-than-sixfold underestimation of the variance of the standard error.

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