Unbiased estimates of circle parameters

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 49-60

  Chan, Y T ^a   Lee, B H ^a   Thomas, S M ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circle fitting; Fisher scoring; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CIRCLE EQUATION; CIRCLE FITTING; CIRCLE PARAMETER; COORDINATE MEASUREMENTS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FISHER SCORING; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; LOWER NOISE; NOISE MAGNITUDE; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 0033164231     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004603023018     Document Type: Article

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