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Sorry, 30 years since college and I wasn't awake all the time.
I'm trying to translate the symbology in the attached pics.
Some of the super/subscripts are throwing me off in formulae 13, 14 and 15.

Y and X = planar coordinates of points.
n = number of points.
σβ = standard error of angle observation.
σs = standard error of distance observation.
Σ = the sum in parenthesis.
Si = sum of distances.

The parenthesis are the problems.
Would Xn equal the last coordinate and Xi-1 each proceeding coordinate, so that I should sum the final minus each proceeding X?
Printed page 12 from Dr. Adam Chrzanowski's text showing Figure 6 (open traverse, with angles and with gyro azimuths) and error propagation equations (13) to (18) for traverse coordinates.


The same formulae in 3-91.
Printed textbook page 120 showing a diagram of a single traverse loop in horizontal control surveys, with points labelled 1 to k on a closed polygon, X and Y axes, and misclosure shown at the starting point. Below is the caption Figure 3-39 and equations 3-90 and 3-91 for the misclosure and standard deviations of traverse coordinates.
 
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Scott S said:
Sorry, 30 years since college and I wasn't awake all the time.
I'm trying to translate the symbology in the attached pics.
Some of the super/subscripts are throwing me off in formulae 13, 14 and 15.

Y and X = planar coordinates of points.
n = number of points.
σβ = standard error of angle observation.
σs = standard error of distance observation.
Σ = the sum in parenthesis.
Si = sum of distances.

The parenthesis are the problems.
Would Xn equal the last coordinate and Xi-1 each proceeding coordinate, so that I should sum the final minus each proceeding X?
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The same formulae in 3-91.
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For example:
[tex]\begin{array}{l}\sum_{i=1}^n \left( \frac{X_i - X_{i-1}}{S_i} \right)^2\\<br /> = \left(\frac{X_1-X_0}{S_1}\right)^2 + \left(\frac{X_2 - X_1}{S_2}\right)^2 + \cdots + \left( \frac{X_n - X_{n-1}}{S_n}\right)^2<br /> \end{array}[/tex]
Is that what you were uncertain about?