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Chapter 3
The last anomaly is the small but well-defined waveform seen
before and after the filtered event. This area contained random noise
before filtering, so one would like it still to be random noise. Instead,
it bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the event
itself.
This always
happens; however, as seen here, it is usually of such low amplitude
that it is not generally serious. It is caused by the fact that even
random noise contains components similar to the event. These very
low amplitude components are picked up by the filter and purified,
while the random components orthogonal to the event are suppressed.
The net result is ver ...