multitaper

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What does multitaper mean?

A technique to estimate the power spectrum of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process, using several different data tapers which are orthogonal to each other.

Where does multitaper come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English taper English multitaper From multi- + taper.

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