Parametric Analysis of Frequency Domain Reflectometry Measurements
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Abstract
In the frequency domain reflectometry (FDR) method of remotely measuring discontinuities in telephone lines, the reflected amplitude versus frequency trace resulting from a single fault has a sinusoidal form that decays with increasing frequency. Each additional fault adds a decaying sinusoidal component with frequency and decay rate in proportion to the fault distance. The objective is to be able to resolve closely spaced faults that are located far from the measuring instrument. Our conventional approach has been to use Fourier analysis, however, we are forced to discount highly accurate low frequency information because a Blackman window is needed to minimize spectral leakage. As an alternative, we assumed an autoregressive (AR) model with a complex pole pair associated with each decaying sinusoidal component and then calculated model parameters using the Burg method. As the model order was increased, the Burg method yielded better resolution than the Fourier transform but it suffered from spurious peaks and spectral line splitting when the model order was too high. With an unknown number of line faults, there was no clear way to preselect the order of the model. We also tried analysis by successive decomposition of the trace assuming decaying sinusoids and using a least squares metric. At the end, we reverted to the Fourier transform and used a mirrored extension of the trace data set. We also used a variety of mirror points at the low frequency end of the trace. Although not fully satisfactory, this has given the best results to date.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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