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Key Concepts

Wide Sense Stationarity (WSS)

This concept concerns random processes whose first and second moments do not change over time. A process is WSS if its mean is constant, and its autocorrelation function depends only on the time difference between observations, not the specific time instances. This property simplifies analysis and prediction, as the statistical structure is invariant with respect to time shifts.

Linear Transformation of Random Processes

This refers to the operation of forming new random processes by taking linear combinations of other random processes, such as sums of lagged and scaled versions of an input process. When the input is stationary, the output may also be stationary under certain conditions. Analyzing the effect of linear operations is fundamental in filtering and signal processing.

Autocorrelation Function

The autocorrelation function measures the similarity between values of a random process at different times, depending only on the lag between them if the process is WSS. Calculating the autocorrelation of a linearly filtered process involves summing weighted products of the input process's autocorrelations, and for iid processes with constant variance, this leads to a function that may depend solely on the lag, reinforcing or undermining stationarity.

IID Random Variables

Independent and identically distributed (iid) random variables are those that share the same probability distribution and are mutually independent. Such processes have constant statistical properties (e.g., constant mean and variance), which makes them foundational in studying stationarity and other probabilistic behaviors in sequences of random variables.

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