Fitting circles to scattered data: parameter estimates have no moments

DOI10.1007/S00184-009-0283-YMaRDI QIDQ537530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai Chernov

Publication date 20 May 2011

Published in Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0429

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal regressionerrors-in-variablesleast squares fitcircle fittingmoments of estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) General nonlinear regression (62J02)

Abstract: We study a nonlinear regression problem of fitting a circle (or a circular arc) to scattered data. We prove that under any standard assumptions on the statistical distribution of errors that are commonly adopted in the literature, the estimates of the circle center and radius have infinite moments. We also discuss methodological implications of this fact.

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