Preprocessing histograms of age at menopause using the fast Fourier transform

Maturitas

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-277

  Greer, William ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Age at menopause; FFT; Fourier analysis; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY MENOPAUSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROCESSING; PRODUCTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037466353     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(03)00039-2     Document Type: Article

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