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- From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
- Subject: Re: Sampled White Gaussian Noise
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- Date: 8 Oct 92 20:00:07 GMT
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- dsimon@atlas.nafb.trw.com writes:
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- >The variance of sampled noise increases with the sampling frequency!
-
- >Mathematically it is not so difficult to understand, but I can't
- >understand it intuitively. Why would the variance change with the
- >sampling frequency?
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- >Consider a gaussian white noise process with 2-sided PSD N/2.
- >Then if we take samples of the noise with sampling frequency f,
- >the variance of each sample is Nf/2. Can anyone expain this intuitively?
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- White noise is uncorrelated, regardless with which frequency you sample.
- That's the definition. The variance is N, and that's it. The problem lies
- in your sampling process. If you sample in an integrating manner
- (integrating over one time slot) instead of taking an instantaneous
- amplitude, you get a variance depending on the sampling interval.
- But then you have an implicit sinc(fT) filter in the frequency domain
- colouring your noise.
-