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Examples are presented of statistical techniques for the analysis of random process data and of their uses in the substantive fields of seismology and neurophysiology. The problems addressed include frequency estimation for decaying cosinusoids, signal estimation, association measurement, causal connection assessment, estimation of speed and direction and structural modeling. The techniques employed include complex demodulation, nonlinear regression, probit analysis, deconvolution, maximum likelihood, singular value decomposition, Fourier analysis and averaging.
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Brillinger, D.R. (2012). Some Statistical Methods for Random Process Data from Seismology and Neurophysiology. In: Guttorp, P., Brillinger, D. (eds) Selected Works of David Brillinger. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1344-8_8
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