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    Friedrich Robert Helmert (31 July 1843 – 15 June 1917) was a German geodesist and statistician with important contributions to the theory of errors. Helmert...
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    The Helmert transformation (named after Friedrich Robert Helmert, 1843–1917) is a geometric transformation method within a three-dimensional space. It...
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    was extended in several directions by the geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert to the Gauss-Helmert model. Gauss also contributed to problems in probability...
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    Earth's circumference#History Earth's radius#History Flat Earth Friedrich Robert Helmert History of geodesy History of the metre Meridian arc#History Seconds...
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  • submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for the German geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert. The name was proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener...
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    found in 1880 and produced several notable individuals, including Friedrich Robert Helmert. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the faculty. The...
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  • 1999). "Making Combined Adjustments". Retrieved 6 June 2017. Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1880). Die mathematischen und physikalischen Theorien der höheren...
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    1828–1914 (England) Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 (United States) Friedrich Robert Helmert 1843–1917 (Germany) Heinrich Bruns 1848–1919 (Germany) Loránd Eötvös...
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    had been noticed by Plantamour and Adolphe Hirsch. This allowed Friedrich Robert Helmert to determine a remarkably accurate value of ⁠1/298.3⁠ for the flattening...
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    distribution was first described by the German geodesist and statistician Friedrich Robert Helmert in papers of 1875–6, where he computed the sampling distribution...
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