[time-nuts] Question about effect of spurious frequency modulation on Allan Deviation

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <66ac003f-ff72-b2e2-ebfd-f81ab64ef2c2 at earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:

>What about doing some sort of fit to the measurement data before 
>calculating the ADEV? Similar to removing a linear ramp.
>
>basically you'd solve for the three sine parameters (f, phase, 
>amp/deviation), then remove that from the data, then run the ADEV 
>calculation.

That is incredibly shaky ground from a scientific point of view.

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