order of autocorrelation/ASDF and interpolation?

I asked this before under another subject line, but perhaps it got lost.

Assume I want the autocorrelation peak or best least squares fit of
sampled data for non-integer sample offsets (e.g. the periods of the
frequencies of interest are not a multiple of the sample interval).

Should I interpolate the data for the autocorrelation/ASDF?  Or should
I do the autocorrelation for integer sample offsets and interpolate the
result?  The former is a lot more computationally intensive, but does
it give any better result than the latter?

Thanks.

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In article bu9i7q$tvp$1@blue.rahul.net, Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. at
rhn@nojunk.rahul.net wrote on 01/16/2004 15:40:

> I asked this before under another subject line, but perhaps it got lost.
> 
> Assume I want the autocorrelation peak or best least squares fit of
> sampled data for non-integer sample offsets (e.g. the periods of the
> frequencies of interest are not a multiple of the sample interval).
> 
> Should I interpolate the data for the autocorrelation/ASDF?  Or should
> I do the autocorrelation for integer sample offsets and interpolate the
> result?  The former is a lot more computationally intensive, but does
> it give any better result than the latter?

ooops.  sometimes i forget to watch threads that i have posted in.  i'm
posting a response on that thread "Re: Detecting the period of a signal",
just to keep it easier for anyone following it or any progeny googling in
some years later.

> Thanks.

r b-j