Polling interval, Allan Deviation

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:59:59 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> That all assumes things are nice in a mathematical sense.   Normal 
> distribution and such.

ntpviz clearly shows nothing about NTP is at all close to a "normal"
distribution.

For a "normal" distribution the skewness s/b 0 and the kurtosis 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis

My "Local Time Offset" is -3.88 and 10.52
My "Local Freq Offset" is -70 and 318.6

RGDS
GARY
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