statistical properties of random time series (“noise”)
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Statistical properties ofRandom time series (“noise”)
Normal (Gaussian) distributionProbability density:
A realization (ensemble element) as a 50 point “time series”
Another realization with 500 points(or 10 elements of an ensemble)
From time series to Gaussian parameters
• N=50: <z(t)>=5.57 (11%); <(z(t)-<z>)2>=3.10• N=500: <z(t)>=6.23 (4%); <(z(t)-<z>)2>=3.03• N=104: <z(t)>=6.05 (0.8%); <(z(t)-<z>)2>=3.06
Divide and conquer• Treat N=104 points as 20 sets of 500 points• Calculate:– mean of means: E{ }=m <mk>=5.97
– std of means: sm=<( -m E{m})2k>=0.13
• Compare with – N=500: <z(t)>=6.23; <z2(t)>=3.03– N=104: <z(t)>=6.05; <z2(t)>=3.06– 1/√500=0.04; 2sm/E{ }=0.04m
Generic definitions (for any kind of ergodic, stationary noise)
• Auto-correlation function
For normal distributions:
Autocorrelation function of a normal distribution (boring)
Autocorrelation function of a normal distribution (boring)
Frequency domain
• Fourier transform (“FFT” nowadays):
• Not true for random noise!• Define (two sided) power spectral density
using autocorrelation function:
• One sided psd: only for f >0, twice as above.
IF
Discrete and finite time series
• Take a time series of total time T, with sampling Dt• Divide it in N segments of length T/N• Calculate FT of each segment, for Df=N/T• Calculate S(f) the average of the ensemble of FTs• We can have few long segments (more uncertainty, more frequency resolution), or many short
segments (less uncertainty, coarser frequency resolution)
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