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The Parameters of Galactic Kinematics Determined from Total Least Squares

Branham, R. L., Jr.

Problems of Galactic kinematics have usually been solved by the method of least squares, but this may lead to biased results because least squares assume that error resides only in the observations, not in the equations of condition. The latter, however, generally incorporate error, at least in some of the columns of the data matrix. Total least s…