[time-nuts] suitable statistics for measurements with gaps
Attila Kinali
attila at kinali.ch
Sat Apr 23 20:39:25 EDT 2016
Hoi Jim,
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:39:07 -0700
jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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? the description of the frequency variation at a time
> difference of 24 hours is useful, even if the integration time for each
> measurement is, say, 1000 seconds.
I recently stumbled over a paper by Sesia and Tavella[1] that might
be of use. I didn't read it yet, so I cannot say anything about its
content but that it covers gaps in ADEV data for space clocks.
Attila Kinali
[1] "Estimating the Allan variance in the presence of long periods of
missing data and outliers", by Sesia and Tavella, 2008
http://stacks.iop.org/Met/45/S134
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