Correlation techniques in the analysis of transient processes

✍ Scribed by F. Kandianis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 494 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-460x(73)80229-9

✦ Synopsis

The nature of random and transient processes is examined and the limitations of the deterministic theory of the analysis of transient signals are revealed. Some concepts of the statistical theory are employed and a definition of the correlation function is used to develop a theory applicable to transient processes and directly analogous to that of stationary random processes.

Thus transient processes may be treated and analysed by atheory similar to that of random stationary processes and spectral properties of the functions of transient processes may be compared with corresponding spectral properties of the functions of random stationary processes.

It should be emphasized that the importance of the theory developed lies in the fact that it does not treat the transient processes from the point of view of non-stationary processes but by a simple method which renders the necessary information about the process and involves simple computations.