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自己相関 (jikosoukan) Japanese meaning: autocorrelation | Kotomora

自じ己こ相そう関かん

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Meanings

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autocorrelation

Technical term in statistics and signal processing: the correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself.

自じ己こ相そう関かん関かん数すうを使つかって信しん号ごうの周しゅう期き性せいを調しらべる

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We examine the periodicity of the signal using the autocorrelation function.

Kanji

自oneself
己self
相inter-, mutual, together
関connection, barrier, gateway

Related words

相そう互ご相そう関かん
Cross-correlation measures similarity between two different signals, while autocorrelation compares a signal with itself.

Built from

自じ己こ+相そう関かん

Etymology

Compound of 自己 (self) and 相関 (correlation), a calque of English 'autocorrelation'.