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On the coherence function for stochastic systems

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A practical implementation of the coherence function for evaluating the linear degree of a stochastic system is developed. It is applied to several well known linear and nonlinear systems.

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This paper has been partially supported by projects BFM2000-1466 and BFM2000-1103 from Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológico. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Spain. The authors are grateful to the Associated Editor and two anonymous referees whose comments and suggestions were helpful in improving the final version of this paper.

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Ruiz-Fuentes, N., Ruiz-Molina, J.C. & Valderrama, M.J. On the coherence function for stochastic systems. Top 9, 281–291 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579087

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