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Tables 23 and 24 

 EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND LEAST SQUARES 



EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

 TABLE 23. — Values of c 1 and er* and their logarithms. 



LEAST SQUARES 

 TABLE 24.— Values of P = -^ f hx r< hx ^ d(hx). 

 P, the probability of an observational error having a value positive or negative equal to 

 or less than x when /; is the measure of precision. P = — / ' e' ihx)2 d(hx). h 2 ={^mAx a ) 

 where m = no. obs. of deviation A.v. 



Burgess, James. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 39, 257, 1900. 

 Smithsonian Tables. 



