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NIST Technical Note 1337: Characterization of Clocks and Oscillators

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212 SAMUEL R. STEINnumber <strong>of</strong> degrees <strong>of</strong> freedom depends on the underlying noise type, that is,white frequency. flicker frequency. etc.• <strong>and</strong> may have a fractional value.Sample Allan variances are distributed as chi square according to theequation(12-34)where s; is the sample Allan variance, df the number <strong>of</strong> degrees <strong>of</strong> freedom(possibly not an integer~ <strong>and</strong>

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