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Data Reduction by Averaging

Volume 24 number 2 (1996)

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Grant Foster
AAVSO

Abstract

In many cases, a time series with very many observations can, by averaging over an appropriate time span, be reduced to a manageable number of data points with very little loss of information. I investigate the errors inherent in this process.