[time-nuts] suitable statistics for measurements with gaps

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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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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