[time-nuts] suitable statistics for measurements with gaps

[jimlux]

On 4/23/16 6:28 PM, Michael Wouters wrote:
> The technique used for dealing with gaps is really about handling random
> gaps in an otherwise uniformly sampled sequence. The idea is that you take
> your sequence, pad it out with the missing data (tagging those points with
> a NaN or whatever) and then when you're computing ADEV, if a data triplet
> is missing a point(s), you simply drop it from the summation.
> This works nicely for ADEV and TOTDEV but not so well for MDEV.
>
> There are a couple of implementations of this around: allantools (Python)
> and tftools (Matlab/Octave) are at least two on GitHub.
>

thanks for the links..
I'll take a look.  I work in both languages..