Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Modern Signal Processing AVD611
Tutorial
1. Barlett method is used to estimate the power spectrum of a process from a sequence
of N = 3000 samples.
(a) What is the minimum length L required for each sequence to achieve a resolution
of ∆f
(b) Explain why it is not advantageous to increase L beyond some value.
2. What are the changes made in Bartlett method to form the Welch method of power
spectrum estimate?.
3. Obtain the mean and variance of the averaging modified periodiogram estimate
4. Justify how periodogram is a unbiased estimator.
5. What are the limitations of non-parametric method?.
6. Suppose we have N=500 samples from a random process.
(a) Determine the frequency resolution of the Bartlett, Welch (50 percent overlap)
and Blackman-Turkey for a quality factor Q = 12.
(b) Determine the record length M for Bartlett, Welch (50 percent overlap) and
Blackman-Turkey
7. Compare the difference between parametric and non-parametric approaches.
8. What are the limitations of parametric approaches?
9. What is the advantage of using windowing in Non-parametric approach? Which
performance metric gets improved because of windowing?
