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Subject: Is Standard deviation equivalent to RMS noise?

Date: Thu Nov 11 12:04:33 2004
Posted by Barry
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Consider an array of data with a nominal value of 1.00: 1.01, 0.99, 0.98, 1.02, ... We can take the standard deviation of this array and get a number. Is this number equivalent to the RMS noise which would be observed?


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