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Withdrawing quantities from the adjustment

We withdraw quantities from the adjustment in a way similar to that in which we added quantities. To remove the element tex2html_wrap_inline8546 from the adjustment, and to display various details about this withdrawal, issue the commands:

BD>adjust: [-/D1] tex2html_wrap_inline6116

BD>show: cd+, v+, a+, b tex2html_wrap_inline6116

BD>show: pcd+, pv tex2html_wrap_inline6116

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Figure 29:  Withdrawing tex2html_wrap_inline8546 from the adjustment

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Figure 30:  The partial adjustment tex2html_wrap_inline8552

This time, the ``[-/D1]'' syntax indicates that the previous adjustment (which was over tex2html_wrap_inline8806 in full) is to be used as the basis for a new adjustment, and that tex2html_wrap_inline8552 (the portion of tex2html_wrap_inline8546 that is not common to tex2html_wrap_inline8550 ) is the source of information withdrawn.

The resulting output (which is considered further in section 6.3) should by now be self-explanatory. Figure 29 displays the canonical directions; detailed variance results; detailed expectation results; and the bearings for the simple adjustment by tex2html_wrap_inline8550 only that remains after withdrawing tex2html_wrap_inline8546 . Additionally, there are some results pertaining to the change in adjustment - for example the bearing output shows the bearing for the partial adjustment.

Figure 30 shows the partial canonical direction and partial variances for the partial adjustment by tex2html_wrap_inline8552 . Bear in mind here that the partial adjustment refers to what happens, and what is expected to happen, when a quantity is withdrawn from the adjustment. Thus, the variances for the quantities of interest are growing larger rather than smaller, and so forth. Hence, the partial variation results show negative resolutions representing increases in variance.



David Wooff
Thu Oct 15 12:20:04 BST 1998