[time-nuts] ADEV vs. OADEV

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Fri Jan 23 00:02:23 UTC 2009


> One point of confusion is that AVAR(tau) should not be directly 
> interpreted as Allan Variance in general, it is actually already defined 
> and reserved to mean a chosen Allan Variance estimator. This is an 

Sorry if I'm jumping into this thread late, but this statement
confuses me. Since when is "AVAR" not simply short-hand
for "Allan Variance"?

Next you'll tell me SDEV isn't Standard Deviation because some
self-important standards organization decided otherwise.

/tvb




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