Re: power spectrum
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- Subject: [mg52764] Re: [mg52695] power spectrum
- From: yehuda ben-shimol <benshimo at bgu.ac.il>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:21:57 -0500 (EST)
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Power spectrum is defined as the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function. For discrete time series use Mathematica's Fourier function (FFT implementation for the DFT) rather than the FourierTransform. A common practice (although known to be a biased estimation) is to take the absolute value of the Fourier outcome, that is Abs[Fourier[data]]. If you look for some specific spectral peek for low frequency, it is recommended that the average value of the data will be subtracted from the data before the analysis. good luck yehuda George Szpiro wrote: >If I have a string of data - let us say a time series of 200 observations - >how can I find the power spectrum? I did Fourier[list] but have no idea what >the output means. > >Thank you for any help (please to my email address: >george at netvision.net.il) > >George Szpiro > > >
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- From: George Szpiro <george@netvision.net.il>
- power spectrum