Coherence estimate between a random and a periodic signal: Bias, variance, analytical critical values, and normalizing transforms

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 346, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 841-853

  Miranda de Sá, Antonio Mauricio F L ^a   Ferreira, Danton D ^b   Dias, Edson W ^c   Mendes, Eduardo M A M ^d   Felix, Leonardo B ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coherence; Estimation; Fisher's z transform; Periodic input; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE; COHERENCE ESTIMATION; CRITICAL VALUE; FISHER'S Z TRANSFORM; GAUSSIAN SIGNALS; GAUSSIANS; NUMBER OF DATUM; PERIODIC INPUT; PERIODIC SIGNAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; Z TRANSFORMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 70349972147     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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