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Quantitative measurements of a variable signal in the presence of noise requires careful attention to subtle affects which can easily bias the measurements. This is not limited to the low-count rate regime, nor is the bias error necessarily small.
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Welsh, W.F. (1997). Measuring Variability in the Presence of Noise. In: Maoz, D., Sternberg, A., Leibowitz, E.M. (eds) Astronomical Time Series. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 218. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8941-3_16
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