July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Chapter 6. Signal Processing and Timeseries
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Spectral analysis with periodograms
- Estimating power spectral density with the Welch method
- Analyzing peaks
- Measuring phase synchronization
- Exponential smoothing
- Evaluating smoothing
- Using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram
- Analyzing the frequency spectrum of audio
- Analyzing signals with the discrete cosine transform
- Block bootstrapping time series data
- Moving block bootstrapping time series data
- Applying the discrete wavelet transform
Introduction
Time is an important dimension in science and daily life. Time series data is abundant and requires special techniques. Usually, we are interested in trends and seasonality or periodicity. In mathematical terms, this means ...