The Third-Difference Approach to Modified Allan Variance - Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
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This study gives strategies for estimating the modified Allan variance (MVAR), and formulas for computing the equivalent degrees of freedom (edf) of the estimators. A thirddifference formulation of MVAR leads to a tractable formula for edf in the presence of power-law phase noise. The effect of estimation stride on edf is shown. First-degree rational-function approximations for edf are derived, and their errors tabulated. A theorem allowing conservative estimates of edf in the presence of compound noise processes is given.
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