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Frequency estimation based on the cumulated Lomb-Scargle periodogram

Statistics Theory 2008-01-03 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider the problem of estimating the period of an unknown periodic function observed in additive noise sampled at irregularly spaced time instants in a semiparametric setting. To solve this problem, we propose a novel estimator based on the cumulated Lomb-Scargle periodogram. We prove that this estimator is consistent, asymptotically Gaussian and we provide an explicit expression of the asymptotic variance. Some Monte-Carlo experiments are then presented to support our claims.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0158,
  title  = {Frequency estimation based on the cumulated Lomb-Scargle periodogram},
  author = {Céline Lévy-Leduc and Eric Moulines and François Roueff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0158},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Nombre de pages : 22

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