[time-nuts] suitable statistics for measurements with gaps
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 22 12:28:41 EDT 2016
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In message <60f3d927-124c-aeb6-8591-81206616f2ff at earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:
>But what about when the observations have gaps? Say you're measuring the
>frequency of a spacecraft oscillator, and you can only see it for 8
>hours a day?
That will still allow you to calculate statibilities for:
tau [0..8h]
tau [16h..32h]
...
But with you will have to compensate your uncertainty for the missing
samples.
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