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Zbl 0905.94009
Ninness, Brett
Estimation of $1/f$ noise.
(English)
[J] IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 44, No.1, 32-46 (1998). ISSN 0018-9448

Summary: Several models have emerged for describing $1/f^\gamma$ noise processes. Based on these, various techniques for estimating the properties of such processes have been developed. This paper provides theoretical analysis of a new wavelet-based approach which has the advantages of having low computational complexity and being able to handle the case where the $1/f^\gamma$ noise might be embedded in a further white-noise process. However, the analysis conducted here shows that these advantages are balanced by the fact that the wavelet-based scheme is only consistent for spectral exponents $\gamma$ in the range $\gamma\in (0,1)$. This is in contradiction to the results suggested in previous empirical studies. When $\gamma\in (0,1)$ this paper also establishes that wavelet-based maximum-likelihood methods are asymptotically Gaussian and efficient. Finally, the asymptotic rate of mean-square convergence of the parameter estimates is established and is shown to slow as $\gamma$ approaches one. Combined with a survey of non-wavelet-based methods, these new results give a perspective on the various tradeoffs to be considered when modeling and estimating $1/f^\gamma$ noise processes.
MSC 2000:
*94A12 Signal theory
93E10 Estimation and detection in stochastic control
42C15 Series and expansions in general function systems
62M05 Markov processes: estimation

Keywords: Brownian motion; maximum-likelihood estimation; wavelet; noise; noise processes

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