Malmquist, Gunnar (1893-1982)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3837. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Swedish astronomer, worked on statistical astronomy, for example the populations of stars in the Galaxy. The Malmquist bias is a statistical effect by which the fainter members of a population are more represented in a brightness-limited sample than they should be—there are more of them to cross by accidental measuring error above the cut-off line than there are above the limit to fall below....

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