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a two-sample variance measure of frequency stability for clocks and oscillators that stays finite for common noise types.

In signal processing, Allan variance refers to a two-sample variance measure of frequency stability for clocks and oscillators that stays finite for common noise types. This meaning comes from Allan (1966) in Proceedings of the IEEE.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Allan, D. W. (1966). Statistics of atomic frequency standards. Proceedings of the IEEE, 54(2), 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1109/proc.1966.4634

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