Thursday, September 21, 2017

discrete signals - Why is sin(t) a stationary process?


I am trying to understand the meaning of the term Stationary Process. For example, I was told that sin(t) is a stationary process.


Could someone try to explain, in simple words, why is sin(t) (for example) is a stationary process?



Answer



sin(t) is no random process, because there's nothing random about it. You could add a random amplitude to get a random process:


x(t)=Asin(t)


This is a random process because A is a random variable. However, x(t) is not stationary, but it is cyclostationary, i.e., its statistical properties vary periodically. You can make the process x(t) stationary by adding a random phase:


˜x(t)=Asin(t+ϕ)



The phase ϕ[0,2π] is a uniformly distributed random variable that is independent of A. It can be shown that the statistical properties of ˜x(t) given by (2) are independent of t, and hence, the process is stationary.


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