Re: Speaking of CCD Accuracy…

[East75th <east75th@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>1.      Does CCD error have a normal distribution?  It seems that it must 
>>for multi-sampling to be effective.
>
>For multisampling to be effective the noise just needs to be significant 
>and non-systematic, not a normal (gaussian) distribution - although such a 
>distribution would permit infinite multisampling.  CCD noise generally is 
>pretty close to gaussian and poisson distributions,

Had I been more thoughtful of my phrasing while typing in the question, I 
would have said a probability distribution that was symmetric about the mean.

Dane Kosaka

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