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Summary The position of an object on the earth’s surface is usually estimated from observed position lines which would pass through the true position if free from error. The statistical aspects of this problem are discussed. Alternative systems of point and region estimation are considered, graphical procedures for least squares estimation are described, and methods are given for the estimation of variance and bias of position lines from accumulated data.
H. E. Daniels (1951) studied this question.