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A statistical primer on classical period-finding techniques in astronomy

Shaban, Ahmed; Giertych, Naomi; Haravu, Pragya +1 more

The aim of our paper is to investigate the properties of the classical phase-dispersion minimization (PDM), analysis of variance (AOV), string-length (SL), and Lomb-Scargle (LS) power statistics from a statistician's perspective. We confirm that when the data are perturbations of a constant function, i.e. under the null hypothesis of no period in …