Bill-Gray / find_orb

Orbit determination from observations
https://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm
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Evaluate and use chi-square test #10

Open Bill-Gray opened 8 years ago

Bill-Gray commented 8 years ago

At present, Find_Orb shows the mean (unweighted) residuals from the orbit fit. This is mostly just to replicate what people are used to. Showing the mean weighted residuals and applying the chi-square test of significance would be more useful. I've written code to compute the incomplete gamma function required for this, so it shouldn't be a big deal.