Assessing statistical significance of periodogram peaks Export

@misc{citeulike:1905736, abstract = {The least-squares (or Lomb-Scargle) periodogram is a powerful tool which is used routinely in many branches of astronomy to search for periodicities in observational data. The problem of assessing statistical significance of candidate periodicities for different periodograms is considered. Based on results in extreme value theory, improved analytic estimations of false alarm probabilities are given. They include an upper limit to the false alarm probability (or a lower limit to the significance). These estimations are tested numerically in order to establish regions of their practical applicability.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Baluev, Roman V.}, citeulike-article-id = {1905736}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0330}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0330}, day = {2}, eprint = {0711.0330}, keywords = {analysis, periodogram, statistics}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2007-11-13 06:06:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Assessing statistical significance of periodogram peaks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0330}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1905736 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1905736 N2 - The least-squares (or Lomb-Scargle) periodogram is a powerful tool which is used routinely in many branches of astronomy to search for periodicities in observational data. The problem of assessing statistical significance of candidate periodicities for different periodograms is considered. Based on results in extreme value theory, improved analytic estimations of false alarm probabilities are given. They include an upper limit to the false alarm probability (or a lower limit to the significance). These estimations are tested numerically in order to establish regions of their practical applicability. TI - Assessing statistical significance of periodogram peaks KW - analysis KW - periodogram KW - statistics AU - Baluev, Roman PY - 2007/Nov/02/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0330 ER -