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ASEN 5070: Statistical Orbit Determination I Fall 2013 Professor Brandon A. Jones Professor George H. Born Lecture 14: Probability Wrap-Up and Statistical Least Squares. Announcements. Lecture Quiz Due by 5pm Wednesday Exam 1 – Friday, October 11
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ASEN 5070: Statistical Orbit Determination I Fall 2013 Professor Brandon A. Jones Professor George H. Born Lecture 14: Probability Wrap-Up and Statistical Least Squares
Announcements • Lecture Quiz Due by 5pm Wednesday • Exam 1 – Friday, October 11 • Open book, open notes, calculator (no phone calculator) • Material presented up to, and including, this week may be on the exam • Homework Assignments 1-5 • Sample exams from previous years on the public website • Exam Review on Monday • E-mail Marco if there is anything you would like him to discuss
Outlines of Topics to Date • Flat Earth Problem • Linearization Procedure • State Transition Matrix • A(t), H(t), etc. • Least Squares (weighted and w/ and w/o a priori) • Minimum Norm • Probability and Statistics • Statistical Least Squares
Today’s Topics • Central Limit Theorem • Bayes’ Theorem • Last Lecture Quiz • Statistical Least Squares
CLT and Orbit Determination • When we have many observations, the CLT implies that we can treat the mean observation errors as a Gaussian random variables • What about when we don’t have many observations?
Bayes’ Theorem • Allows for updating a hypothesis’ probability when given additional information • Known as Bayesian Inference • Modern estimation research is rooted in Bayesian Inference!
Question 4 Only if the weight is zero will an observation be ignored! What if all weights are small? If the weight is small, it may have little impact on the solution, but it is not ignored