In this post we discuss ways of estimating -th order cyclic temporal moment and cumulant functions. Recall that for , cyclic moments and cyclic cumulants are usually identical. They differ when the signal contains one or more finite-strength additive sine-wave components. In the common case when such components are absent (as in our recurring numerical example involving rectangular-pulse BPSK), they are equal and they are also equal to the conventional cyclic autocorrelation function provided the delay vector is chosen appropriately. That is, the two-dimensional delay vector is set equal to .
The more interesting case is when the order is greater than two. Most communication signal models possess odd-order moments and cumulants that are identically zero, so the first non-trivial order greater than two is four. Our estimation task is to estimate -th order temporal moment and cumulant functions for using a sampled-data record of length .
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