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Before analysis of
SR data can begin, it is important to test the
process of analysis on known, generated data. To do this a Fortran
program was written to generate realistic data. Then several analysis
techniques were implemented to determine the underlying frequency
distributions. We started by testing with a simple Fourier
transform. Next attempts were made with the Maximum Entropy technique
of spectral analysis. Then, we tried fitting to a Fourier series. In
the end it was found that perhaps the best way to uncover the
frequency distributions was by fitting the data to a Fourier series.
W. J. Kossler
2001-01-11