-------- In message <[email protected]>, Bob kb8tq writes:
>In general the way you go from 1 to 10 to 100 seconds is to decimate >( = throw away) the data to get a phase record at the tau you are after. The problem with that, is that decimation may _also_ throw away noise. As a general scientific rule, if you measured, you use the measurements, you cannot "pick & choose" amongst your measurements, not even if you do it in a certifiably random way. As I understand it, that is one of the minor problems the Modified Allan Variance was (also) supposed to fix ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
