A Few Methods for Fitting Circles to Data

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1881-1885

  Umbach, Dale ^a   Jones, Kerry N ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitting circles; Least squares

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; VECTORS;

FITTING CIRCLES;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

EID: 0344013004     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.820472     Document Type: Article

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