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Tom Roberts:

> > The Miller data /are/ a time series in a way, with the
> > readings as uniform as the rotation of the device. [...]
>
> Each run can be considered to be a (regular) time series
> ONLY if it has no omitted adjustment turns.

If regular means gapless.  In my pre-processing, I
incorporated the adjustments as you did but instead of
cutting the adjustment turns out I counted them, producing
time series with gaps in readings.  Thankfully, there are
methods and even software to analyse such series.

> From the dozen or so of those that I have seen [#], I can
> say that you are HIGHLY unlikely to find any significant
> 1/2-turn or 1-turn "signal" in them.

You published set contains several runs marked "steady",
"very steady", and "perfectly steady" in your
transcriptions.  They are not, however, literally monotonic,
but often predominantly so.

> The ones I remember were simply a monotonic drift totaling
> less than 1 fringe during 20 turns this is a self-
> fulfilling prophecy, because if it drifted much more than
> that, he would have made an adjustment. (My memory 17
> years later is hazy.)

Of course, yet there are "perfect" Mt. Wilson runs with no
adjustments and a considerable (in comparison to others)
half-periodic signal, present before any comb-filtering.

> When I was at CWRU to give a physics colloquium on this,
> Prof. Fickinger and I spent a few hours in the archives
> scanning Miller's data sheets for runs with no
> adjustments. Our only selection criteria were 20 turns
> with no adjustments (some runs have fewer turns, a very
> few have more). I don't remember if we looked at every
> sheet or had to quit before that; I believe we looked at
> more than half. IIRC we found several dozen -- that was 17
> years ago and my memory is hazy. I have copies somewhere,
> but have no interest in typing them in.

Will you share all your scans so that I can type them in?

> Interestingly, Dayton Miller was the first head of the
> physics department at what is now CWRU. He designed their
> physics building, and it has several pillars intended to
> support interferometers,

Why more than one?  One might think he was erecting a temple
ofthe Ether Wind :-)

> which go all the way down to bedrock and never connect to
> the rest of the building (for vibration isolation).

Similar to some of my loudspeaker designs isolating the
driver from the front baffle of the enclosure.

> Also: the archives' exhibit on Dayton Miller was primarily
> about his extensive collection of flutes;

Does it include his works on acoustics, and particularly the
Phonodeik?

> they had to dig to find his interferometer data sheets,
> which were kept loose in about a dozen folders.

I believe they came from Shankland, after a long period of
being unaccounted and missing.  Have you an idea how I can
order scans of those sheets wihtout actually coming to CWRU?
If all hope for a positive result is to be abanandoned, I
will do it after a diligent study of the available data,
meaning some 300 or so sheets from the Mt. Wilson
experiments.

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  Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-03-05 12:48 -0600
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      Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-03-09 23:26 +0300
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          Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-03-10 11:25 +0100
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          Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-03-12 00:01 +0300
      Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-03-10 15:10 -0600
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      Re: statistics in Roberts' paper on Miller Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-03-19 13:46 -0500
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