noun
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How much a signal matches itself when it's shifted in time, used in areas like sound processing or physics to find repeating patterns.
By analyzing the autocorrelation, scientists can see if a sound wave repeats at certain intervals.
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In statistics, how a value relates to its past values over time, helping to find regular cycles in data.
The autocorrelation showed that the sales data had a peak every holiday season.
translation
How much a signal matches itself when it's shifted in time, used in areas like sound processing or physics to find repeating patterns.; In statistics, how a value relates to its past values over time, helping to find regular cycles in data.
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autocorrelations