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Scedasticity

When developing models of measured data it is generally important to analyse the residuals. One important aspect is whether the residuals vary with the signal level, i.e. if the random part of the signal grows with increasing signal level. We therefore distinguish two cases:
 


The following  shows the difference between homo- and heteroscedastic data.

Last Update: 2004-Jul-03