Figure 7.7. Determining the most accurate signal from noisy oscillators.

Figure 7.7

Determining the most accurate signal from noisy oscillators. Top left, the standard deviations of 100 Gaussian random variables (representing the phases of oscillators in a noisy system), rank ordered from the largest to the smallest. Top right repeats this plot, but it also shows the standard deviations of the averages of two oscillators, averages of three oscillators, and so on until all the oscillators are averaged. Bottom, the most accurate oscillators are first or last when phases of the oscillators are taken from a uniform distribution. See code 7.4 for details.

From: Eighteen Principles of Synchrony

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