Adjustment Computations: Statistics and Least Squares in Surveying and GIS W/DISK
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PAUL R. WOLF, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, is the author of Elements of Photogrammetry and the bestselling Elementary Surveying, now in its ninth edition.

CHARLES D. GHILANI, PhD, is Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Chair of the Surveying Program at Pennsylvania State University.

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Partial table of contents:

Measurements and Their Analysis.

Random Error Theory.

Confidence Intervals and Statistical Testing.

Propagation of Random Errors in Indirectly Measured Quantities.

Error Propagation in Angle and Distance Measurements.

Error Propagation in Traverse Surveys.

Weights of Observations.

Principles of Least Squares.

Adjustment of Level Nets.

Precisions of Indirectly Determined Quantities.

Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Trilateration.

Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Triangulation.

Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Traverses and Networks.

Adjustment of GPS Networks.

Error Ellipse.

Blunder Detection in Horizontal Survey Networks.

General Least-Squares Method and Its Application to Curve Fitting and Coordinate Transformations.

Computer Optimization.

Appendices.

Bibliography.

Index.

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