Topic 7: Random Processes

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Topic7: RandomProcesses De nition,discreteandcontinuousprocesses Specifyingrandomprocesses{Joint cdf's or pdf's{Mean,auto-covariance,auto-correlat ion{Cross-covariance,cross-correlation StationaryprocessesandergodicityES150{ Harvard SEAS1Randomprocesses Arandomprocess, alsocalledastochasticprocess, is a familyof randomvariables,indexedby a parametertfromanindexingsetT. For eachexperiment outcome!2 ,we assigna functionXthatdependsontX(t; !)t2T; !2 {tis typicallytime,butcanalsobe a spatialdimension{tcanbe discreteor continuous{Therangeoftcanbe nite,butmoreoftenis in nite,which meanstheprocesscontainsanin nitenumber of randomvariables.}}}}}}}

† Deflnition, discrete and continuous processes † Specifying random processes { Joint cdf’s or pdf’s { Mean, auto-covariance, auto-correlation { Cross-covariance, cross-correlation † Stationary processes and ergodicity ES150 { Harvard SEAS 1 Random processes † A random process, also called a stochastic process, is a family of random

  Processes, Stochastic