Statistical Analysis of Network Analyzer Measurements

From the May-June 1998 Issue

by John Juroshek, C.M. Wang, George McCabe

For the past five years, the Automatice RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) has conducted a measurement comparison program for vector network analyzers. The results of those measurements varies substantially, and classic statistical measures such as the mean and standard deviation are significantly distorted by a few participants whose measurements differ significantly from the others. This report describes come robust statistical techniques for analyzer those measurements.

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