Astronomical time-series analysis - II. A search for periodicity using the shannon entropy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 302, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 582-586

  Cincotta, Pablo M ^a,d   Helmi, Amina ^b   Méndez, Mariano ^a,c   Núñez, Josué A ^a   Vucetich, Héctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Methods: analytical; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:ANALYTICAL; NON-SINUSOIDAL; PERIODIC SIGNAL; PERIODOGRAMS; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; TIMES SERIES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0040294253     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02128.x     Document Type: Article

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