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Measurement of a wandering signal amid noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

E. J. Hannan*
Affiliation:
Australian National University

Abstract

A formula is given for the response function of a filter which extracts a signal generated by a non-stationary process from amid noise. The non-stationarity is due to the presence of zeros on the unit circle of the function characterising the difference equation generating the signal. The signal is broken into a trend component and a stochastic integral in which t occurs only through the factor exp it λ and it is shown that the filter which optimally extracts the latter perfectly represents the former. The considerations cover the case of a vector series. Applications to problems in seasonal variation measurement are indicated.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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