James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

PH5006:03

Data Analysis

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: PH4001

25 lectures. Full year.

Staff: Professor M Heron.

Noise in physical systems; Rice Distribution for weak signals; statistical properties of zero crossing rates, discriminator level crossings and local maxima; spectral analysis, filtering, fast Fourier Transform algorithm, Nyquist sampling; other spectral analyses; correlation analysis; information theory.

Learning Objectives:

  1. students will gain a working familiarity with signal processing principles and acquire knowledge of principles and techniques.

Assessment by a three-hour examination and assignments.