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Re: Variance of white noise

From Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
Newsgroups comp.dsp
Subject Re: Variance of white noise
Date 2020-10-10 13:24 -0400
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On 2020-10-09 22:01, Les Cargill wrote:
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> On 2020-09-27 23:38, Tom Killwhang wrote:
>>> I was reading Box and Jenkins Time series analysis and noticed that 
>>> when they calculated power spectrum they had a factor 2 in the 
>>> numerator - see
>>> http://www.ru.ac.bd/stat/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2019/03/504_05_Box_Time-Series-Analysis-Forecasting-and-Control-2015.pdf 
>>>
>>>
>>> equation (3.1.12).
>>>
>>> I couldn't figure out where the 2 is coming from but then I wondered 
>>> if they define noise a different way in stats. Just like when we have 
>>> sine waves and take an FFT the magnitude is divided by 2 when we show 
>>> the two sided spectrum, is it fair to do the same with white-noise? I 
>>> think them may have multiplied it by 2 so that for the full spectrum 
>>> =pi to +pi it gets halved. We don't seem to do this in engineering do 
>>> we?
>>>
>>
>> The analytic signal convention is used almost universally in test 
>> equipment and other areas.  It allows one to use exp(i omega t) 
>> instead of sines and cosines, which saves half the algebra and 
>> therefore three quarters of the blunders. ;)
>>
>> You form the analytic signal from a real signal by adding +-i times 
>> its Hilbert transform (depending on your sign convention), which  has 
>> the effect of :
>>
>> 1. doubling the positive frequency amplitudes
>> 2. zeroing out the negative frequency ones
>> 3. leaving DC alone.
>>
>> Normal people of course apply rules 1-3 instead of Hilbert 
>> transforming. ;)
>>
>> The analytic signal convention is responsible for many of those 
>> strange factors of 2 that show up in noise calculations, e.g. the 1-Hz 
>> shot noise density of a current I = e N is
>>
>> i_N = sqrt(2 e I) = e * sqrt(2N)
>>
>> rather than e * sqrt(N)
>>
>> The reason is that a 1-second boxcar has a bandwidth of 0.5 Hz on 
>> account of the negative frequencies being chopped off, so the sqrt(N) 
>> noise is compressed into half the bandwidth.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
>>
> 
> Sp why do so many people treat the Hilbert transform as if it were
> equivalent to the analytic signal? You get massive DC with the usual FFT 
> method of constructing a Hilbert transform.
> 
> I will have to try your list, just for giggles. But anything that is
> basically "cat signal | s/sin/cos/g " will not be pleasant with respect 
> to DC. Er, "what is cos(0)? :)
> 
> -- 
> Les Cargill

Well, you can't phase shift DC after all.

(BTW remember to switch back to sines and cosines before doing anything 
very nonlinear such as computing the power. )

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

-- 
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

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Variance of white noise Tom Killwhang <gyansorova@gmail.com> - 2020-09-27 20:38 -0700
  Re: Variance of white noise Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2020-10-08 14:33 -0400
    Re: Variance of white noise Les Cargill <lcargil99@gmail.com> - 2020-10-09 21:01 -0500
      Re: Variance of white noise Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2020-10-10 13:24 -0400
        Re: Variance of white noise Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2020-10-10 13:27 -0400
      Re: Variance of white noise spope384@gmail.com (Steve Pope) - 2020-12-03 21:12 +0000

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