-------- In message <85E3D5A82F314700BCA6493EEF245CCF@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>1) The scale is more intuitive, I find, when sqrt is used -- so I'm curious >why you chose MVAR instead of MDEV? Actually the plot is MDEV now that I think of it... I've added a footnote. >2) When plots mostly head down with a -1 slope, consider TDEV >instead of MDEV, which effectively rotates by 45 degrees turning >-1 slopes into 0 slopes. For some kinds of data a rise above a >normal (zero) slope is more informative than a bend of a steep -1 >line. Psychologically too, it removes the >"things are working better and better as time goes on" impression >that happens with a -1 slope, e.g., when ADEV is used on data from >a locked loop. Good point. >3) Before you settle on MDEV, also try ADEV. There are cases where >the massive averaging inside of MDEV ruins interesting noise periodics I generally hunt periodics with FFTs, but yes, ADEV is useful for the sort of "almost has a stable frequency" like HVAC's turning on/off etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
