Recipes for Degrees of Freedom of Frequency Stability Estimators

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 994-999

  Greenhall, Charles A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING--NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOCK NOISE MODELS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 0026396395     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: 15579662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.119780     Document Type: Article

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