A&A Supplement Series, Vol. 126, December I 1997, 251-255
Received January 6; accepted February 27, 1997
C. Jaschek and A. Valbousquet
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37 Teso de la Feria
37008 Salamanca, Spain.
Observatoire de Strasbourg, URA 1280 CNRS, 11 rue de
l'Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
We analyze the work of three teams of classifiers providing spectral
classifications in the range of late B-type to early F-type stars. With the
help of a statistical model we derive an accuracy of 
luminosity
classes for the spectroscopic luminosity class provided by classifiers.
This is sligthly better than one luminosity class, and corresponds, in the
region of the A-type stars, to a precision of about 
(absolute)
magnitudes. We do not find differences in the precision of three
series analyzed.
We analyze also the case of Am stars and conclude that the probability that two independent classifiers agree that a given object is Am, is of the order of 60%.
keywords: stars: distances -- stars: fundamental parameters -- stars: HR diagram