Statistical Glossary

Power Spectrum:

The power spectrum of a stationary random process or a stationary time series is the average of the square of the amplitude of the Fourier spectrum :

where

• is the amplitude spectrum of the realization of the random process ;
• is the operator of averaging over all realizations of the process .

The power spectrum is one of the central concepts in spectral analysis , signal processing , time series analysis .

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