Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud: The RR Lyrae Stars
Gisella Clementini, Raffaele Gratton, Angela Bragaglia, 
Eugenio Carretta, Luca Di Fabrizio, and Marcella Maio
Astronomical Journal 125, 1309-1329 (2003)

Population I Distance Indicators 
Method                  DM        +/-    Reference       
Cepheids: trig. paral.  18.70     0.16   Feast & Catchpole 1997
Cepheids: MS fitting    18.55     0.06   Laney & Stobie 1994
Cepheids: B-W           18.55     0.10   Gieren et al. 1998, Di Benedetto 1997
Cepheids: P/L relation  18.575    0.2    Groenewegen 2000
Eclipsing binaries      18.4      0.1    Ribas et al. 2002
Clump                   18.42     0.07   This paper; see \S 6.2
Clump                   18.45     0.07   This paper; see \S 6.2
Clump                   18.59     0.09   Romaniello et al. 2000
Clump                   18.471    0.12   Pietrzynsky \& Gieren 2002
Clump                   18.54     0.10   Sarajedini et al. 2002
Miras                   18.54     0.18   Van Leeuwen 1997
Miras                   18.64     0.14   Feast 2000
SN 1987a                18.58     0.05   Panagia 1998

Population II Distance Indicators       
GCs: MSF                18.45     0.09   Gratton et al. 2002 and this paper
GCs: dyn. mod.          18.45     0.13   Carretta et al. 2000b and this paper
HB: trig. paral.        18.44     0.13   Carretta et al. 2000b and this paper
RR Lyr: stat. paral.    18.30     0.14   This paper; see \S 7
RR Lyr: BW              18.38     0.16   This paper; see \S 7
RR Lyr: BW revised      18.50     0.16   Cacciari et al. 2000 and this paper
LMC RRd's               18.55     0.19   A97 and A00
LMC RRd's               18.52     0.18   Kovacs 2000 and this paper
WD cool. seq.           18.40     0.15   Gratton et al. 2002 and this paper
RRLyr: trig. par        18.45     0.16   Benedict et al. 2002 and this paper
TRGB                    18.55     0.09   Cioni et al. 2000
TRGB                    18.69     0.26   Romaniello et al. 2000.