White Noise Processes
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 113, Issue 5
Abstract
A class of white noise processes defined as the formal derivative of Lévy processes is studied. It is shown that (1) This class consists of two types of processes, the Gauss white noise and the Poisson white noise; (2) there are no other white noise processes of practical interest whose probability law can be specified simply; (3) delta correlated processes used in random vibration analyses to model non‐Gaussian wide band processes seem to be Poisson white noises; and (4) it is not possible to obtain non‐Gaussian white noises from Gaussian white noises by memoryless nonlinear transformations.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 113 • Issue 5 • January 1987
Pages: 757 - 765
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Copyright © 1987 ASCE.
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Published online: Jan 1, 1987
Published in print: Jan 1987
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