Realistic error estimates on kinematic parameters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 339, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 215-224

  De Bruyne, V ^a   Vauterin, P ^a   De Rijcke, S ^a   Dejonghe, H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics; Methods: Data analysis; Methods: Numerical Methods: Statistical

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; KINEMATICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

CURRENT ERROR; DATAPOINTS; ERROR ESTIMATES; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS PARAMETERS; METHOD: NUMERICAL; METHOD: NUMERICAL - METHOD: STATISTICAL; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; SPECTRA'S;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0142073756     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06162.x     Document Type: Article

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