May 7th, 2009| 02:22 pm | Posted by hlee
Almost 100 years ago, A.S. Eddington stated in his book Stellar Movements (1914) that
…in calculating the mean error of a series of observations it is preferable to use the simple mean residual irrespective of sign rather than the mean square residual
Such eminent astronomer said already least absolute deviation over chi-square, if I match simple mean residual and mean square residual to relevant methodologies, in order. Continue reading ‘a century ago’ »
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Apr 20th, 2009| 09:34 pm | Posted by hlee
I asked a couple of astronomers if they heard the term plug-in estimator and none of them gave me a positive answer. Continue reading ‘[MADS] plug-in estimator’ »
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