[time-nuts] Allan Variance versus Allan Deviation

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Mar 28 20:50:16 UTC 2011


On 03/28/2011 09:33 PM, William H. Fite wrote:
> Magnus is quite right.  Variance is almost always just a value on its way to
> becoming another value.  Squared units make little sense in most
> applications.
>
> Bill (the statistician)

Variance has it's place, but for most of our uses, stick with the 
Deviation just to keep things simple.

Cheers,
Magnus



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