[time-nuts] Phase noise confusion II

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 4/10/2020 5:47 AM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It is not at all uncommon to …. errr …. make that decision, regardless
> of what the customer might think about it :)
> 
> Even with that sort of decision, the whole process of measuring a one
> sigma and multiplying by 6 depends very much on the underlying
> processes (noise or maybe something else ….) being well behaved /
> Gaussian sort of things. One can at least on paper construct situations
> that do not meat that “well behaved” constraint …..
>
> Bob
> 
>


A few decades ago, Motorola had a "six sigma" program
which made everyone think they were a statistician just
because they knew that buzzword.

Rick N6RK