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O hateful error, melancholy’s child, Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Julius Caesar, Act V, scene iii

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The maximum-error test is given a rigorous statistical analysis. It is shown that the test is a poor figure of merit for judging the quality of performance of an attitude estimation algorithm. Two illustrative examples are presented.

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  1. ACS Engineering, 7341 Eden Brook Drive, Columbia, Maryland, 21046, USA

    Douglas C. Freesland (Chief Technical Officer)

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Amherst, New York, 14260, USA

    Yang Cheng (Research Assistant Professor)

  3. Acme Spacecraft Company, 13017 Wisteria Drive, Box 328, Germantown, Maryland, 20874, USA

    Malcolm D. Shuster (Director of Research)

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Freesland, D.C., Cheng, Y. & Shuster, M.D. The maximum-error test. J of Astronaut Sci 55, 259–270 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03256524

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