Total Variance, an Estimator of Long-Term Frequency Stability
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چکیده
Total variance is a statistical tool developed for improved estimates of frequency stability at averaging times up to half the test duration. As a descriptive statistic, Total variance performs an exact decomposition of the sample variance of the frequency residuals into components associated with descending frequency octaves. As an estimator of Allan variance, Total variance has modest bias and has greater degrees of freedom and lesser mean square error than the standard estimator does.
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