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119-501: Least-squares spectral analysis ( LSSA ) is a method of estimating a frequency spectrum based on a least-squares fit of sinusoids to data samples, similar to Fourier analysis . Fourier analysis, the most used spectral method in science, generally boosts long-periodic noise in the long and gapped records; LSSA mitigates such problems. Unlike in Fourier analysis, data need not be equally spaced to use LSSA. Developed in 1969 and 1971, LSSA

238-469: A p {\displaystyle a_{1},\ldots ,a_{p}} . The estimation problem then becomes one of estimating these parameters. The most common form of parametric SDF estimate uses as a model an autoregressive model AR ( p ) {\displaystyle {\text{AR}}(p)} of order p {\displaystyle p} . A signal sequence { Y t } {\displaystyle \{Y_{t}\}} obeying

357-435: A 2-dimensional vector, as a complex number , or as magnitude (amplitude) and phase in polar coordinates (i.e., as a phasor ). A common technique in signal processing is to consider the squared amplitude, or power ; in this case the resulting plot is referred to as a power spectrum . Because of reversibility, the Fourier transform is called a representation of the function, in terms of frequency instead of time; thus, it

476-437: A DFT is a type of power spectrum called periodogram , which is widely used for examining the frequency characteristics of noise-free functions such as filter impulse responses and window functions . But the periodogram does not provide processing-gain when applied to noiselike signals or even sinusoids at low signal-to-noise ratios . In other words, the variance of its spectral estimate at a given frequency does not decrease as

595-410: A common value for the given predictor variable. This is the only interpretation of "held fixed" that can be used in an observational study . The notion of a "unique effect" is appealing when studying a complex system where multiple interrelated components influence the response variable. In some cases, it can literally be interpreted as the causal effect of an intervention that is linked to the value of

714-410: A desired set of frequencies, sine and cosine functions are evaluated at the times corresponding to the data samples, and dot products of the data vector with the sinusoid vectors are taken and appropriately normalized; following the method known as Lomb/Scargle periodogram, a time shift is calculated for each frequency to orthogonalize the sine and cosine components before the dot product; finally,

833-412: A different set of frequencies to be estimated (e.g., equally spaced frequencies) or simply neglect the correlations in N (i.e., the off-diagonal blocks) and estimate the inverse least squares transform separately for the individual frequencies..." Lomb's periodogram method, on the other hand, can use an arbitrarily high number of, or density of, frequency components, as in a standard periodogram ; that is,

952-576: A group of predictor variables, say, { x 1 , x 2 , … , x q } {\displaystyle \{x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{q}\}} , a group effect ξ ( w ) {\displaystyle \xi (\mathbf {w} )} is defined as a linear combination of their parameters where w = ( w 1 , w 2 , … , w q ) ⊺ {\displaystyle \mathbf {w} =(w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{q})^{\intercal }}

1071-942: A linear regression model assumes that the relationship between the dependent variable y and the vector of regressors x is linear . This relationship is modeled through a disturbance term or error variable ε —an unobserved random variable that adds "noise" to the linear relationship between the dependent variable and regressors. Thus the model takes the form y i = β 0 + β 1 x i 1 + ⋯ + β p x i p + ε i = x i T β + ε i , i = 1 , … , n , {\displaystyle y_{i}=\beta _{0}+\beta _{1}x_{i1}+\cdots +\beta _{p}x_{ip}+\varepsilon _{i}=\mathbf {x} _{i}^{\mathsf {T}}{\boldsymbol {\beta }}+\varepsilon _{i},\qquad i=1,\ldots ,n,} where denotes

1190-556: A method for choosing a sparse set of components from an over-complete set — such as sinusoidal components for spectral analysis — called the fast orthogonal search (FOS). Mathematically, FOS uses a slightly modified Cholesky decomposition in a mean-square error reduction (MSER) process, implemented as a sparse matrix inversion. As with the other LSSA methods, FOS avoids the major shortcoming of discrete Fourier analysis, so it can accurately identify embedded periodicities and excel with unequally spaced data. The fast orthogonal search method

1309-483: A near-optimal decomposition of spectra or other problems, similar to the technique that later became known as the orthogonal matching pursuit. In the Vaníček method, a discrete data set is approximated by a weighted sum of sinusoids of progressively determined frequencies using a standard linear regression or least-squares fit. The frequencies are chosen using a method similar to Barning's, but going further in optimizing

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1428-473: A new detection technique, but instead studies the reliability and efficiency of detection with the most commonly used technique, the periodogram, in the case where the observation times are unevenly spaced ," and further points out regarding least-squares fitting of sinusoids compared to periodogram analysis, that his paper "establishes, apparently for the first time, that (with the proposed modifications) these two methods are exactly equivalent." Press summarizes

1547-483: A penalized version of the least squares cost function as in ridge regression ( L -norm penalty) and lasso ( L -norm penalty). Use of the Mean Squared Error (MSE) as the cost on a dataset that has many large outliers, can result in a model that fits the outliers more than the true data due to the higher importance assigned by MSE to large errors. So, cost functions that are robust to outliers should be used if

1666-520: A periodogram analysis equivalent to what nowadays is called the Lomb method and least-squares fitting of selected frequencies of sinusoids determined from such periodograms — and connected by a procedure known today as the matching pursuit with post-back fitting or the orthogonal matching pursuit. Petr Vaníček , a Canadian geophysicist and geodesist of the University of New Brunswick , proposed in 1969 also

1785-443: A power is computed from those two amplitude components. This same process implements a discrete Fourier transform when the data are uniformly spaced in time and the frequencies chosen correspond to integer numbers of cycles over the finite data record. This method treats each sinusoidal component independently, or out of context, even though they may not be orthogonal to data points; it is Vaníček's original method. In addition, it

1904-407: A predictor variable. However, it has been argued that in many cases multiple regression analysis fails to clarify the relationships between the predictor variables and the response variable when the predictors are correlated with each other and are not assigned following a study design. Numerous extensions of linear regression have been developed, which allow some or all of the assumptions underlying

2023-419: A single dependent variable. In linear regression, the relationships are modeled using linear predictor functions whose unknown model parameters are estimated from the data . Most commonly, the conditional mean of the response given the values of the explanatory variables (or predictors) is assumed to be an affine function of those values; less commonly, the conditional median or some other quantile

2142-400: A study design, the comparisons of interest may literally correspond to comparisons among units whose predictor variables have been "held fixed" by the experimenter. Alternatively, the expression "held fixed" can refer to a selection that takes place in the context of data analysis. In this case, we "hold a variable fixed" by restricting our attention to the subsets of the data that happen to have

2261-480: A sum of p {\displaystyle p} complex exponentials in the presence of white noise , w ( n ) {\displaystyle w(n)} The power spectral density of x ( n ) {\displaystyle x(n)} is composed of p {\displaystyle p} impulse functions in addition to the spectral density function due to noise. The most common methods for frequency estimation involve identifying

2380-444: A weighted sum of sinusoidal basis functions, tabulated in a matrix A by evaluating each function at the sample times, with weight vector x : where the weights vector x is chosen to minimize the sum of squared errors in approximating Φ . The solution for x is closed-form, using standard linear regression : Here the matrix A can be based on any set of functions mutually independent (not necessarily orthogonal) when evaluated at

2499-564: A zero mean AR ( p ) {\displaystyle {\text{AR}}(p)} process satisfies the equation where the ϕ 1 , … , ϕ p {\displaystyle \phi _{1},\ldots ,\phi _{p}} are fixed coefficients and ϵ t {\displaystyle \epsilon _{t}} is a white noise process with zero mean and innovation variance σ p 2 {\displaystyle \sigma _{p}^{2}} . The SDF for this process

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2618-435: A zero-mean function as above, given by If these data were samples taken from an electrical signal, this would be its average power (power is energy per unit time, so it is analogous to variance if energy is analogous to the amplitude squared). Now, for simplicity, suppose the signal extends infinitely in time, so we pass to the limit as N → ∞ . {\displaystyle N\to \infty .} If

2737-508: Is with Δ t {\displaystyle \Delta t} the sampling time interval and f N {\displaystyle f_{N}} the Nyquist frequency . There are a number of approaches to estimating the parameters ϕ 1 , … , ϕ p , σ p 2 {\displaystyle \phi _{1},\ldots ,\phi _{p},\sigma _{p}^{2}} of

2856-427: Is a frequency domain representation. Linear operations that could be performed in the time domain have counterparts that can often be performed more easily in the frequency domain. Frequency analysis also simplifies the understanding and interpretation of the effects of various time-domain operations, both linear and non-linear. For instance, only non-linear or time-variant operations can create new frequencies in

2975-477: Is a model that estimates the linear relationship between a scalar response ( dependent variable ) and one or more explanatory variables ( regressor or independent variable ). A model with exactly one explanatory variable is a simple linear regression ; a model with two or more explanatory variables is a multiple linear regression . This term is distinct from multivariate linear regression , which predicts multiple correlated dependent variables rather than

3094-416: Is a step function , monotonically non-decreasing. Its jumps occur at the frequencies of the periodic components of x {\displaystyle x} , and the value of each jump is the power or variance of that component. The variance is the covariance of the data with itself. If we now consider the same data but with a lag of τ {\displaystyle \tau } , we can take

3213-417: Is a framework for modeling response variables that are bounded or discrete. This is used, for example: Generalized linear models allow for an arbitrary link function , g , that relates the mean of the response variable(s) to the predictors: E ( Y ) = g − 1 ( X B ) {\displaystyle E(Y)=g^{-1}(XB)} . The link function is often related to

3332-476: Is a generalization of simple linear regression to the case of more than one independent variable, and a special case of general linear models, restricted to one dependent variable. The basic model for multiple linear regression is for each observation i = 1 , … , n {\textstyle i=1,\ldots ,n} . In the formula above we consider n observations of one dependent variable and p independent variables. Thus, Y i

3451-577: Is a meaningful effect. It can be accurately estimated by its minimum-variance unbiased linear estimator ξ ^ A = 1 q ( β ^ 1 ′ + β ^ 2 ′ + ⋯ + β ^ q ′ ) {\textstyle {\hat {\xi }}_{A}={\frac {1}{q}}({\hat {\beta }}_{1}'+{\hat {\beta }}_{2}'+\dots +{\hat {\beta }}_{q}')} , even when individually none of

3570-435: Is a special group effect with weights w 1 = 1 {\displaystyle w_{1}=1} and w j = 0 {\displaystyle w_{j}=0} for j ≠ 1 {\displaystyle j\neq 1} , but it cannot be accurately estimated by β ^ 1 ′ {\displaystyle {\hat {\beta }}'_{1}} . It

3689-551: Is a weight vector satisfying ∑ j = 1 q | w j | = 1 {\textstyle \sum _{j=1}^{q}|w_{j}|=1} . Because of the constraint on w j {\displaystyle {w_{j}}} , ξ ( w ) {\displaystyle \xi (\mathbf {w} )} is also referred to as a normalized group effect. A group effect ξ ( w ) {\displaystyle \xi (\mathbf {w} )} has an interpretation as

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3808-817: Is also known as the Vaníček method and the Gauss-Vaniček method after Petr Vaníček , and as the Lomb method or the Lomb–Scargle periodogram , based on the simplifications first by Nicholas R. Lomb and then by Jeffrey D. Scargle. The close connections between Fourier analysis , the periodogram , and the least-squares fitting of sinusoids have been known for a long time. However, most developments are restricted to complete data sets of equally spaced samples. In 1963, Freek J. M. Barning of Mathematisch Centrum , Amsterdam, handled unequally spaced data by similar techniques, including both

3927-695: Is also not a meaningful effect. In general, for a group of q {\displaystyle q} strongly correlated predictor variables in an APC arrangement in the standardized model, group effects whose weight vectors w {\displaystyle \mathbf {w} } are at or near the centre of the simplex ∑ j = 1 q w j = 1 {\textstyle \sum _{j=1}^{q}w_{j}=1} ( w j ≥ 0 {\displaystyle w_{j}\geq 0} ) are meaningful and can be accurately estimated by their minimum-variance unbiased linear estimators. Effects with weight vectors far away from

4046-406: Is available. Because data are often not sampled at uniformly spaced discrete times, this method "grids" the data by sparsely filling a time series array at the sample times. All intervening grid points receive zero statistical weight, equivalent to having infinite error bars at times between samples. The most useful feature of LSSA is enabling incomplete records to be spectrally analyzed — without

4165-417: Is captured by x j . In this case, including the other variables in the model reduces the part of the variability of y that is unrelated to x j , thereby strengthening the apparent relationship with x j . The meaning of the expression "held fixed" may depend on how the values of the predictor variables arise. If the experimenter directly sets the values of the predictor variables according to

4284-427: Is equal to the number of data points. No such inverse procedure is known for the periodogram method. The LSSA can be implemented in less than a page of MATLAB code. In essence: "to compute the least-squares spectrum we must compute m spectral values ... which involves performing the least-squares approximation m times, each time to get [the spectral power] for a different frequency" I.e., for each frequency in

4403-414: Is in fact the spectral decomposition of c {\displaystyle c} over the different frequencies, and is related to the distribution of power of x {\displaystyle x} over the frequencies: the amplitude of a frequency component of c {\displaystyle c} is its contribution to the average power of the signal. The power spectrum of this example

4522-754: Is meaningful when the latter is. Thus meaningful group effects of the original variables can be found through meaningful group effects of the standardized variables. In Dempster–Shafer theory , or a linear belief function in particular, a linear regression model may be represented as a partially swept matrix, which can be combined with similar matrices representing observations and other assumed normal distributions and state equations. The combination of swept or unswept matrices provides an alternative method for estimating linear regression models. A large number of procedures have been developed for parameter estimation and inference in linear regression. These methods differ in computational simplicity of algorithms, presence of

4641-400: Is minimized. For example, it is common to use the sum of squared errors ‖ ε ‖ 2 2 {\displaystyle \|{\boldsymbol {\varepsilon }}\|_{2}^{2}} as a measure of ε {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\varepsilon }}} for minimization. Consider a situation where a small ball is being tossed up in

4760-504: Is no distinction between the simple out-of-context dot-product-based projection onto basis functions versus an in-context simultaneous least-squares fit; that is, no matrix inversion is required to least-squares partition the variance between orthogonal sinusoids of different frequencies. In the past, Fourier's was for many a method of choice thanks to its processing-efficient fast Fourier transform implementation when complete data records with equally spaced samples are available, and they used

4879-452: Is not continuous, and therefore does not have a derivative, and therefore this signal does not have a power spectral density function. In general, the power spectrum will usually be the sum of two parts: a line spectrum such as in this example, which is not continuous and does not have a density function, and a residue, which is absolutely continuous and does have a density function. Linear regression In statistics , linear regression

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4998-457: Is possible to perform a full simultaneous or in-context least-squares fit by solving a matrix equation and partitioning the total data variance between the specified sinusoid frequencies. Such a matrix least-squares solution is natively available in MATLAB as the backslash operator. Furthermore, the simultaneous or in-context method, as opposed to the independent or out-of-context version (as well as

5117-401: Is probable. Group effects provide a means to study the collective impact of strongly correlated predictor variables in linear regression models. Individual effects of such variables are not well-defined as their parameters do not have good interpretations. Furthermore, when the sample size is not large, none of their parameters can be accurately estimated by the least squares regression due to

5236-433: Is regressed on C . It is often used where the variables of interest have a natural hierarchical structure such as in educational statistics, where students are nested in classrooms, classrooms are nested in schools, and schools are nested in some administrative grouping, such as a school district. The response variable might be a measure of student achievement such as a test score, and different covariates would be collected at

5355-461: Is still assumed, with a matrix B replacing the vector β of the classical linear regression model. Multivariate analogues of ordinary least squares (OLS) and generalized least squares (GLS) have been developed. "General linear models" are also called "multivariate linear models". These are not the same as multivariable linear models (also called "multiple linear models"). Various models have been created that allow for heteroscedasticity , i.e.

5474-496: Is strongly correlated with other predictor variables, it is improbable that x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} can increase by one unit with other variables held constant. In this case, the interpretation of β j {\displaystyle \beta _{j}} becomes problematic as it is based on an improbable condition, and the effect of x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} cannot be evaluated in isolation. For

5593-423: Is the i observation of the dependent variable, X ij is i observation of the j independent variable, j = 1, 2, ..., p . The values β j represent parameters to be estimated, and ε i is the i independent identically distributed normal error. In the more general multivariate linear regression, there is one equation of the above form for each of m > 1 dependent variables that share

5712-449: Is the least squares estimator of β j ′ {\displaystyle \beta _{j}'} . In particular, the average group effect of the q {\displaystyle q} standardized variables is which has an interpretation as the expected change in y ′ {\displaystyle y'} when all x j ′ {\displaystyle x_{j}'} in

5831-431: Is used. Like all forms of regression analysis , linear regression focuses on the conditional probability distribution of the response given the values of the predictors, rather than on the joint probability distribution of all of these variables, which is the domain of multivariate analysis . Linear regression is also a type of machine learning algorithm , more specifically a supervised algorithm, that learns from

5950-412: The β j ′ {\displaystyle \beta _{j}'} can be accurately estimated by β ^ j ′ {\displaystyle {\hat {\beta }}_{j}'} . Not all group effects are meaningful or can be accurately estimated. For example, β 1 ′ {\displaystyle \beta _{1}'}

6069-462: The AR ( p ) {\displaystyle {\text{AR}}(p)} process and thus the spectral density: Alternative parametric methods include fitting to a moving-average model (MA) and to a full autoregressive moving-average model (ARMA). Frequency estimation is the process of estimating the frequency , amplitude, and phase-shift of a signal in the presence of noise given assumptions about

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6188-413: The q {\displaystyle q} variables via testing H 0 : ξ A = 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}:\xi _{A}=0} versus H 1 : ξ A ≠ 0 {\displaystyle H_{1}:\xi _{A}\neq 0} , and (3) characterizing the region of the predictor variable space over which predictions by

6307-456: The covariance of x ( t ) {\displaystyle x(t)} with x ( t + τ ) {\displaystyle x(t+\tau )} , and define this to be the autocorrelation function c {\displaystyle c} of the signal (or data) x {\displaystyle x} : If it exists, it is an even function of τ . {\displaystyle \tau .} If

6426-490: The multicollinearity problem. Nevertheless, there are meaningful group effects that have good interpretations and can be accurately estimated by the least squares regression. A simple way to identify these meaningful group effects is to use an all positive correlations (APC) arrangement of the strongly correlated variables under which pairwise correlations among these variables are all positive, and standardize all p {\displaystyle p} predictor variables in

6545-548: The multiple signal classification (MUSIC) method, the eigenvector method, and the minimum norm method. Suppose x n {\displaystyle x_{n}} , from n = 0 {\displaystyle n=0} to N − 1 {\displaystyle N-1} is a time series (discrete time) with zero mean. Suppose that it is a sum of a finite number of periodic components (all frequencies are positive): The variance of x n {\displaystyle x_{n}} is, for

6664-511: The time–frequency representation . Methods for instantaneous frequency estimation include those based on the Wigner–Ville distribution and higher order ambiguity functions . If one wants to know all the (possibly complex) frequency components of a received signal (including transmitted signal and noise), one uses a multiple-tone approach. A typical model for a signal x ( n ) {\displaystyle x(n)} consists of

6783-580: The transpose , so that x i β is the inner product between vectors x i and β . Often these n equations are stacked together and written in matrix notation as where Fitting a linear model to a given data set usually requires estimating the regression coefficients β {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\beta }}} such that the error term ε = y − X β {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\varepsilon }}=\mathbf {y} -\mathbf {X} {\boldsymbol {\beta }}}

6902-417: The Fourier family of techniques to analyze gapped records as well, which, however, required manipulating and even inventing non-existent data just so to be able to run a Fourier-based algorithm. Spectral density estimation#Overview Some SDE techniques assume that a signal is composed of a limited (usually small) number of generating frequencies plus noise and seek to find the location and intensity of

7021-417: The Vaníček spectrum follow β-distribution . Inverse transformation of Vaníček's LSSA is possible, as is most easily seen by writing the forward transform as a matrix; the matrix inverse (when the matrix is not singular) or pseudo-inverse will then be an inverse transformation; the inverse will exactly match the original data if the chosen sinusoids are mutually independent at the sample points and their number

7140-416: The air and then we measure its heights of ascent h i at various moments in time t i . Physics tells us that, ignoring the drag , the relationship can be modeled as where β 1 determines the initial velocity of the ball, β 2 is proportional to the standard gravity , and ε i is due to measurement errors. Linear regression can be used to estimate the values of β 1 and β 2 from

7259-441: The average power is bounded, then c {\displaystyle c} exists everywhere, is finite, and is bounded by c ( 0 ) , {\displaystyle c(0),} which is the average power or variance of the data. It can be shown that c {\displaystyle c} can be decomposed into periodic components with the same periods as x {\displaystyle x} : This

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7378-472: The average power is bounded, which is almost always the case in reality, then the following limit exists and is the variance of the data. Again, for simplicity, we will pass to continuous time, and assume that the signal extends infinitely in time in both directions. Then these two formulas become and The root mean square of sin {\displaystyle \sin } is 1 / 2 {\displaystyle 1/{\sqrt {2}}} , so

7497-458: The basic model to be relaxed. The simplest case of a single scalar predictor variable x and a single scalar response variable y is known as simple linear regression . The extension to multiple and/or vector -valued predictor variables (denoted with a capital X ) is known as multiple linear regression , also known as multivariable linear regression (not to be confused with multivariate linear regression ). Multiple linear regression

7616-499: The category of Fourier analysis . The Fourier transform of a function produces a frequency spectrum which contains all of the information about the original signal, but in a different form. This means that the original function can be completely reconstructed ( synthesized ) by an inverse Fourier transform . For perfect reconstruction, the spectrum analyzer must preserve both the amplitude and phase of each frequency component. These two pieces of information can be represented as

7735-401: The central role of the linear predictor β ′ x as in the classical linear regression model. Under certain conditions, simply applying OLS to data from a single-index model will consistently estimate β up to a proportionality constant. Hierarchical linear models (or multilevel regression ) organizes the data into a hierarchy of regressions, for example where A is regressed on B , and B

7854-450: The centre are not meaningful as such weight vectors represent simultaneous changes of the variables that violate the strong positive correlations of the standardized variables in an APC arrangement. As such, they are not probable. These effects also cannot be accurately estimated. Applications of the group effects include (1) estimation and inference for meaningful group effects on the response variable, (2) testing for "group significance" of

7973-586: The centred y {\displaystyle y} and x j ′ {\displaystyle x_{j}'} be the standardized x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} . Then, the standardized linear regression model is Parameters β j {\displaystyle \beta _{j}} in the original model, including β 0 {\displaystyle \beta _{0}} , are simple functions of β j ′ {\displaystyle \beta _{j}'} in

8092-409: The choice of each successive new frequency by picking the frequency that minimizes the residual after least-squares fitting (equivalent to the fitting technique now known as matching pursuit with pre-backfitting). The number of sinusoids must be less than or equal to the number of data samples (counting sines and cosines of the same frequency as separate sinusoids). A data vector Φ is represented as

8211-607: The classroom, school, and school district levels. Errors-in-variables models (or "measurement error models") extend the traditional linear regression model to allow the predictor variables X to be observed with error. This error causes standard estimators of β to become biased. Generally, the form of bias is an attenuation, meaning that the effects are biased toward zero. In a multiple linear regression model parameter β j {\displaystyle \beta _{j}} of predictor variable x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} represents

8330-464: The columns have zero pair-wise dot products ), the matrix AA is diagonal; when the columns all have the same power (sum of squares of elements), then that matrix is an identity matrix times a constant, so the inversion is trivial. The latter is the case when the sample times are equally spaced and sinusoids chosen as sines and cosines equally spaced in pairs on the frequency interval 0 to a half cycle per sample (spaced by 1/N cycles per sample, omitting

8449-693: The component with frequency ν k {\displaystyle \nu _{k}} is 1 2 A k 2 . {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}A_{k}^{2}.} All these contributions add up to the average power of x ( t ) . {\displaystyle x(t).} Then the power as a function of frequency is 1 2 A k 2 , {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}A_{k}^{2},} and its statistical cumulative distribution function S ( ν ) {\displaystyle S(\nu )} will be S {\displaystyle S}

8568-419: The data strongly influence the performance of different estimation methods: A fitted linear regression model can be used to identify the relationship between a single predictor variable x j and the response variable y when all the other predictor variables in the model are "held fixed". Specifically, the interpretation of β j is the expected change in y for a one-unit change in x j when

8687-504: The dataset has many large outliers . Conversely, the least squares approach can be used to fit models that are not linear models. Thus, although the terms "least squares" and "linear model" are closely linked, they are not synonymous. Given a data set { y i , x i 1 , … , x i p } i = 1 n {\displaystyle \{y_{i},\,x_{i1},\ldots ,x_{ip}\}_{i=1}^{n}} of n statistical units ,

8806-504: The development this way: A completely different method of spectral analysis for unevenly sampled data, one that mitigates these difficulties and has some other very desirable properties, was developed by Lomb, based in part on earlier work by Barning and Vanicek, and additionally elaborated by Scargle. In 1989, Michael J. Korenberg of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, developed the "fast orthogonal search" method of more quickly finding

8925-495: The disadvantages of the basic periodogram. These techniques can generally be divided into non-parametric , parametric , and more recently semi-parametric (also called sparse) methods. The non-parametric approaches explicitly estimate the covariance or the spectrum of the process without assuming that the process has any particular structure. Some of the most common estimators in use for basic applications (e.g. Welch's method ) are non-parametric estimators closely related to

9044-440: The distribution of the response, and in particular it typically has the effect of transforming between the ( − ∞ , ∞ ) {\displaystyle (-\infty ,\infty )} range of the linear predictor and the range of the response variable. Some common examples of GLMs are: Single index models allow some degree of nonlinearity in the relationship between x and y , while preserving

9163-514: The errors for different response variables may have different variances . For example, weighted least squares is a method for estimating linear regression models when the response variables may have different error variances, possibly with correlated errors. (See also Weighted linear least squares , and Generalized least squares .) Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors is an improved method for use with uncorrelated but potentially heteroscedastic errors. The Generalized linear model (GLM)

9282-427: The expected change in y {\displaystyle y} when variables in the group x 1 , x 2 , … , x q {\displaystyle x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{q}} change by the amount w 1 , w 2 , … , w q {\displaystyle w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{q}} , respectively, at

9401-488: The frequency domain can be over-sampled by an arbitrary factor. However, as mentioned above, one should keep in mind that Lomb's simplification and diverging from the least squares criterion opened up his technique to grave sources of errors, resulting even in false spectral peaks. In Fourier analysis, such as the Fourier transform and discrete Fourier transform , the sinusoids fitted to data are all mutually orthogonal, so there

9520-436: The frequency spectrum. In practice, nearly all software and electronic devices that generate frequency spectra utilize a discrete Fourier transform (DFT), which operates on samples of the signal, and which provides a mathematical approximation to the full integral solution. The DFT is almost invariably implemented by an efficient algorithm called fast Fourier transform (FFT). The array of squared-magnitude components of

9639-455: The generated frequencies. Others make no assumption on the number of components and seek to estimate the whole generating spectrum. Spectrum analysis , also referred to as frequency domain analysis or spectral density estimation, is the technical process of decomposing a complex signal into simpler parts. As described above, many physical processes are best described as a sum of many individual frequency components. Any process that quantifies

9758-470: The group effect also reduces to an individual effect. A group effect ξ ( w ) {\displaystyle \xi (\mathbf {w} )} is said to be meaningful if the underlying simultaneous changes of the q {\displaystyle q} variables ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x q ) ⊺ {\displaystyle (x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{q})^{\intercal }}

9877-403: The individual effect of x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} . It has an interpretation as the expected change in the response variable y {\displaystyle y} when x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} increases by one unit with other predictor variables held constant. When x j {\displaystyle x_{j}}

9996-400: The information in x j , so that once that variable is in the model, there is no contribution of x j to the variation in y . Conversely, the unique effect of x j can be large while its marginal effect is nearly zero. This would happen if the other covariates explained a great deal of the variation of y , but they mainly explain variation in a way that is complementary to what

10115-445: The labelled datasets and maps the data points to the most optimized linear functions that can be used for prediction on new datasets. Linear regression was the first type of regression analysis to be studied rigorously, and to be used extensively in practical applications. This is because models which depend linearly on their unknown parameters are easier to fit than models which are non-linearly related to their parameters and because

10234-543: The least squares estimated model are accurate. A group effect of the original variables { x 1 , x 2 , … , x q } {\displaystyle \{x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{q}\}} can be expressed as a constant times a group effect of the standardized variables { x 1 ′ , x 2 ′ , … , x q ′ } {\displaystyle \{x_{1}',x_{2}',\dots ,x_{q}'\}} . The former

10353-437: The matching-pursuit approach for equally and unequally spaced data, which he called "successive spectral analysis" and the result a "least-squares periodogram". He generalized this method to account for any systematic components beyond a simple mean, such as a "predicted linear (quadratic, exponential, ...) secular trend of unknown magnitude", and applied it to a variety of samples, in 1971. Vaníček's strictly least-squares method

10472-550: The mean of the data before calculating the periodogram. However, this is an inaccurate assumption when the mean of the model (the fitted sinusoids) is non-zero. The generalized Lomb–Scargle periodogram removes this assumption and explicitly solves for the mean. In this case, the function fitted is The generalized Lomb–Scargle periodogram has also been referred to in the literature as a floating mean periodogram . Michael Korenberg of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario , developed

10591-404: The measured data. This model is non-linear in the time variable, but it is linear in the parameters β 1 and β 2 ; if we take regressors x i  = ( x i 1 , x i 2 )  = ( t i , t i ), the model takes on the standard form Standard linear regression models with standard estimation techniques make a number of assumptions about the predictor variables,

10710-472: The model so that they all have mean zero and length one. To illustrate this, suppose that { x 1 , x 2 , … , x q } {\displaystyle \{x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{q}\}} is a group of strongly correlated variables in an APC arrangement and that they are not strongly correlated with predictor variables outside the group. Let y ′ {\displaystyle y'} be

10829-478: The need to manipulate data or to invent otherwise non-existent data. Magnitudes in the LSSA spectrum depict the contribution of a frequency or period to the variance of the time series . Generally, spectral magnitudes thus defined enable the output's straightforward significance level regime. Alternatively, spectral magnitudes in the Vaníček spectrum can also be expressed in dB . Note that spectral magnitudes in

10948-408: The noise subspace to extract these components. These methods are based on eigen decomposition of the autocorrelation matrix into a signal subspace and a noise subspace. After these subspaces are identified, a frequency estimation function is used to find the component frequencies from the noise subspace. The most popular methods of noise subspace based frequency estimation are Pisarenko's method ,

11067-401: The noise is unknown, so for example a false-alarm spectral peak in the Lomb periodogram analysis of noisy periodic signal may result from noise in turbulence data. Fourier methods can also report false spectral peaks when analyzing patched-up or data edited otherwise. The standard Lomb–Scargle periodogram is only valid for a model with a zero mean. Commonly, this is approximated — by subtracting

11186-475: The number of samples used in the computation increases. This can be mitigated by averaging over time ( Welch's method )  or over frequency ( smoothing ). Welch's method is widely used for spectral density estimation (SDE). However, periodogram-based techniques introduce small biases that are unacceptable in some applications. So other alternatives are presented in the next section. Many other techniques for spectral estimation have been developed to mitigate

11305-401: The number of the components. This contrasts with the general methods above, which do not make prior assumptions about the components. If one only wants to estimate the frequency of the single loudest pure-tone signal , one can use a pitch detection algorithm . If the dominant frequency changes over time, then the problem becomes the estimation of the instantaneous frequency as defined in

11424-511: The other covariates are held fixed—that is, the expected value of the partial derivative of y with respect to x j . This is sometimes called the unique effect of x j on y . In contrast, the marginal effect of x j on y can be assessed using a correlation coefficient or simple linear regression model relating only x j to y ; this effect is the total derivative of y with respect to x j . Care must be taken when interpreting regression results, as some of

11543-429: The periodogram version due to Lomb), cannot fit more components (sines and cosines) than there are data samples, so that: "...serious repercussions can also arise if the selected frequencies result in some of the Fourier components (trig functions) becoming nearly linearly dependent with each other, thereby producing an ill-conditioned or near singular N. To avoid such ill conditioning it becomes necessary to either select

11662-415: The periodogram. By contrast, the parametric approaches assume that the underlying stationary stochastic process has a certain structure that can be described using a small number of parameters (for example, using an auto-regressive or moving-average model ). In these approaches, the task is to estimate the parameters of the model that describes the stochastic process. When using the semi-parametric methods,

11781-445: The potentially unequal powers of these two basis functions, to obtain a better estimate of the power at a frequency. This procedure made his modified periodogram method exactly equivalent to Lomb's method. Time delay τ {\displaystyle \tau } by definition equals to Then the periodogram at frequency ω {\displaystyle \omega } is estimated as: which, as Scargle reports, has

11900-428: The regressors may not allow for marginal changes (such as dummy variables , or the intercept term), while others cannot be held fixed (recall the example from the introduction: it would be impossible to "hold t i fixed" and at the same time change the value of t i ). It is possible that the unique effect be nearly zero even when the marginal effect is large. This may imply that some other covariate captures all

12019-552: The response variable y is still a scalar. Another term, multivariate linear regression , refers to cases where y is a vector, i.e., the same as general linear regression . The general linear model considers the situation when the response variable is not a scalar (for each observation) but a vector, y i . Conditional linearity of E ( y ∣ x i ) = x i T B {\displaystyle E(\mathbf {y} \mid \mathbf {x} _{i})=\mathbf {x} _{i}^{\mathsf {T}}B}

12138-755: The response variable and their relationship. Numerous extensions have been developed that allow each of these assumptions to be relaxed (i.e. reduced to a weaker form), and in some cases eliminated entirely. Generally these extensions make the estimation procedure more complex and time-consuming, and may also require more data in order to produce an equally precise model. The following are the major assumptions made by standard linear regression models with standard estimation techniques (e.g. ordinary least squares ): Violations of these assumptions can result in biased estimations of β , biased standard errors, untrustworthy confidence intervals and significance tests. Beyond these assumptions, several other statistical properties of

12257-403: The same frequency, since the correlations between pairs of sinusoids are often small, at least when they are not tightly spaced. This formulation is essentially that of the traditional periodogram but adapted for use with unevenly spaced samples. The vector x is a reasonably good estimate of an underlying spectrum, but since we ignore any correlations, A x is no longer a good approximation to

12376-420: The same set of explanatory variables and hence are estimated simultaneously with each other: for all observations indexed as i = 1, ... , n and for all dependent variables indexed as j = 1, ... , m . Nearly all real-world regression models involve multiple predictors, and basic descriptions of linear regression are often phrased in terms of the multiple regression model. Note, however, that in these cases

12495-401: The same statistical distribution as the periodogram in the evenly sampled case. At any individual frequency ω {\displaystyle \omega } , this method gives the same power as does a least-squares fit to sinusoids of that frequency and of the form: In practice, it is always difficult to judge if a given Lomb peak is significant or not, especially when the nature of

12614-611: The same time with other variables (not in the group) held constant. It generalizes the individual effect of a variable to a group of variables in that ( i {\displaystyle i} ) if q = 1 {\displaystyle q=1} , then the group effect reduces to an individual effect, and ( i i {\displaystyle ii} ) if w i = 1 {\displaystyle w_{i}=1} and w j = 0 {\displaystyle w_{j}=0} for j ≠ i {\displaystyle j\neq i} , then

12733-411: The sample times; functions used for spectral analysis are typically sines and cosines evenly distributed over the frequency range of interest. If we choose too many frequencies in a too-narrow frequency range, the functions will be insufficiently independent, the matrix ill-conditioned, and the resulting spectrum meaningless. When the basis functions in A are orthogonal (that is, not correlated, meaning

12852-431: The signal is modeled by a stationary process which has a spectral density function (SDF) S ( f ; a 1 , … , a p ) {\displaystyle S(f;a_{1},\ldots ,a_{p})} that is a function of the frequency f {\displaystyle f} and p {\displaystyle p} parameters a 1 , … ,

12971-517: The signal, and the method is no longer a least-squares method — yet in the literature continues to be referred to as such. Rather than just taking dot products of the data with sine and cosine waveforms directly, Scargle modified the standard periodogram formula so to find a time delay τ {\displaystyle \tau } first, such that this pair of sinusoids would be mutually orthogonal at sample times t j {\displaystyle t_{j}} and also adjusted for

13090-414: The sine phases at 0 and maximum frequency where they are identically zero). This case is known as the discrete Fourier transform , slightly rewritten in terms of measurements and coefficients. Trying to lower the computational burden of the Vaníček method in 1976 (no longer an issue), Lomb proposed using the above simplification in general, except for pair-wise correlations between sine and cosine bases of

13209-422: The standardized model. A group effect of { x 1 ′ , x 2 ′ , … , x q ′ } {\displaystyle \{x_{1}',x_{2}',\dots ,x_{q}'\}} is and its minimum-variance unbiased linear estimator is where β ^ j ′ {\displaystyle {\hat {\beta }}_{j}'}

13328-431: The standardized model. The standardization of variables does not change their correlations, so { x 1 ′ , x 2 ′ , … , x q ′ } {\displaystyle \{x_{1}',x_{2}',\dots ,x_{q}'\}} is a group of strongly correlated variables in an APC arrangement and they are not strongly correlated with other predictor variables in

13447-448: The statistical properties of the resulting estimators are easier to determine. Linear regression has many practical uses. Most applications fall into one of the following two broad categories: Linear regression models are often fitted using the least squares approach, but they may also be fitted in other ways, such as by minimizing the " lack of fit " in some other norm (as with least absolute deviations regression), or by minimizing

13566-469: The strongly correlated group increase by ( 1 / q ) {\displaystyle (1/q)} th of a unit at the same time with variables outside the group held constant. With strong positive correlations and in standardized units, variables in the group are approximately equal, so they are likely to increase at the same time and in similar amount. Thus, the average group effect ξ A {\displaystyle \xi _{A}}

13685-414: The underlying process is modeled using a non-parametric framework, with the additional assumption that the number of non-zero components of the model is small (i.e., the model is sparse). Similar approaches may also be used for missing data recovery as well as signal reconstruction . Following is a partial list of spectral density estimation techniques: In parametric spectral estimation, one assumes that

13804-464: The variance of A k sin ⁡ ( 2 π ν k t + ϕ k ) {\displaystyle A_{k}\sin(2\pi \nu _{k}t+\phi _{k})} is 1 2 A k 2 . {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}A_{k}^{2}.} Hence, the contribution to the average power of x ( t ) {\displaystyle x(t)} coming from

13923-582: The various amounts (e.g. amplitudes, powers, intensities) versus frequency (or phase ) can be called spectrum analysis . Spectrum analysis can be performed on the entire signal. Alternatively, a signal can be broken into short segments (sometimes called frames ), and spectrum analysis may be applied to these individual segments. Periodic functions (such as sin ⁡ ( t ) {\displaystyle \sin(t)} ) are particularly well-suited for this sub-division. General mathematical techniques for analyzing non-periodic functions fall into

14042-426: Was also applied to other problems, such as nonlinear system identification . Palmer has developed a method for finding the best-fit function to any chosen number of harmonics, allowing more freedom to find non-sinusoidal harmonic functions. His is a fast ( FFT -based) technique for weighted least-squares analysis on arbitrarily spaced data with non-uniform standard errors. Source code that implements this technique

14161-481: Was then simplified in 1976 by Nicholas R. Lomb of the University of Sydney , who pointed out its close connection to periodogram analysis. Subsequently, the definition of a periodogram of unequally spaced data was modified and analyzed by Jeffrey D. Scargle of NASA Ames Research Center , who showed that, with minor changes, it becomes identical to Lomb's least-squares formula for fitting individual sinusoid frequencies. Scargle states that his paper "does not introduce

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