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- Measurement of Tracks in Chambers
- Track is x=a+bz (a=intercept, b= slope), where
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are measured as independent random variables, but
the combinations a and b are clearly correlated.
- where
has standard deviation 
.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu