[time-nuts] New Trimble timing products

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Tue May 22 08:27:34 UTC 2007


From: Dr Bruce Griffiths <bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] New Trimble timing products
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 13:08:17 +1200
Message-ID: <46524281.5060905 at xtra.co.nz>

> Didier Juges wrote:
> > Sorry, it's not 15nS rms, it's 15nS at 1 sigma.
> >
> > Didier KO4BB
> >   
> Didier
> 
> Surely the standard deviation (1 sigma) and the rms values are identical?
> Specifying 1 sigma is perhaps intended to signify that the timing error 
> is stochastic.

To the best of my knowledge they are identical. It is not a good indication to
say that something in stochastic.

Cheers,
Magnus




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