From: Raul Kompass <kompass@server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject: Re: [HELP] data - search for period
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:35:41 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Summary: [missing]

Hi Trung,

I had a similar probelm recently and found the following:

http://varesearch.ucsd.edu/KLEMFUSS/seektau.htm

one of the main results there is, that with short series of data the
Fourier transform is by far not the best method.

Raul



"Trung H. Nguyen" wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I was asked the problem: from some experiment we got data in the form of a
> sequence of values in  time. A priori known that they (data) are periodical.
> Is there any method to calculate the period of them (approximately) ?
> I am not familiar with data processing, and cannot find the answer. Any help
> or reference is highly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> Nguyen