Abstract
Based on the unifying framework of the detection, identification and adaption (DIA) estimators, quality control indices are refined and formulated by taking the uncertainty of the combined estimation-testing procedure into account and performing the propagation of uncertainty. These indices are used to measure the confidence levels of the testing decisions, the reliability of the specified alternative hypothesis models, as well as the biasedness and dispersion of the estimated parameters. A simplified algebraic estimation (SAE) method is developed to calculate these quality control indices for the application of single outlier DIA. Compared to the conventional Monte Carlo simulation method, the proposed SAE method can achieve an adequate estimation accuracy and significantly higher computation efficiency. Using a GNSS single-point positioning example, the performance of the SAE method is evaluated and the quality control of the conventionally used DIA estimator is demonstrated for practical applications.
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This work is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41731069, 41504022), the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (20ZR1462000), and the Open Research Fund Program of LIESMARS (Grant No. 19R02).
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The detailed proof for Eqs. (37–39) is as follows.
Under hypothesis \({\mathcal{H}}_{i}\), there is.
From Eq. (37), it is derived
It can be simplified as
Similarly, the variance is
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Yang, L., Shen, Y., Li, B. et al. Simplified algebraic estimation for the quality control of DIA estimator. J Geod 95, 14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01454-9
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