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Blue-Whale "B" Calls, First Post-AGU2002 Analysis (1-09-2003): Comparison of Different Convergence Results

Description of the data analysis for these events.

Number of "B" calls per week, from Sept. 1, 2001, to Sept. 24, 2002
events which converged for all four fits and for which res2 < 2.5E8 and nchi2 < .5 . This is the "gold- plated" set of events. Note that over half of the fully convergent events do not find their way onto this plot. (See next plot.)
events which converged for all four fits but which did not satisfy the goodness-of-fit criteria (res2 < 2.5E8 and nchi2 < .5) .

IDL program rdfit.pro used to read in data from least-squares fits.
IDL program plotbw4 used to make the graphs above.