• DocumentCode
    945777
  • Title

    An isospectral family of random processes

  • Author

    Silverman, Richard A.

  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1960
  • fDate
    9/1/1960 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    485
  • Lastpage
    490
  • Abstract
    We construct a family of random step functions {x_n (t)} whose members all have the same power spectrum and such that as n \\rightarrow \\infty , x_n (t) converges to x_{\\infty } (t) , the Gaussian process with the same spectrum. We illustrate the procedure for calculating the general multivariate distribution of the processes {x_n(t)} by calculating the univariate, bivariate and trivariate distributions. We show how a suitably constructed univariate entropy can serve as an index of the extent to which x_n(t) has approached the Gaussian limit x_{\\infty }( t ).
  • Keywords
    Spectral analysis; Stochastic processes; Bridges; Contracts; Entropy; Gaussian distribution; Gaussian noise; Gaussian processes; Higher order statistics; Random processes; Random variables; Research and development; Senior members; Stochastic resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IRE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-1000
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1960.1057588
  • Filename
    1057588