Abstract
Having introduced the concept of a random process in the previous chapter, we now wish to explore an important subclass of stationary random processes. This is motivated by the very restrictive nature of the stationarity condition, which although mathematically expedient, is almost never satisfied in practice. A somewhat weaker type of stat ionarity is based on requiring the mean to be a constant in time and the covariance sequence to depend only on the separation in time between the two samples. We have already encountered these types of random processes in Examples 16.9-16.11. Such a random process is said to be stationary in the wide sense or wide sense stationary (WSS). It is also termed a weakly stationary random process to distinguish it from a stationary process, which is said to be strictly stationary. We will use the form er terminology to refer to such a process as a WSS random process. In addition, as we will see in Chapter 19, if the random process is Gaussian, then wide sense stationarity implies stationarity. For this reason alone, it makes sense to explore WSS random processes since the use of Gaussian random processes for modeling is ubiquitous.
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