I’ve seen several published and pre-published (arXiv.org) technical papers over the past couple of years on the topic of cyclic correntropy (The Literature [R123-R127]). I first criticized such a paper ([R123]) here, but the substance of that review was about my problems with the presented mathematics, not impulsive noise and its effects on CSP. Since the papers keep coming, apparently, I’m going to put down some thoughts on impulsive noise and some evidence regarding simple means of mitigation in the context of CSP. Preview: I don’t think we need to go to the trouble of investigating cyclic correntropy as a means of salvaging CSP from the clutches of impulsive noise.
spectral coherence
For the Beginner at CSP
Here is a list of links to CSP Blog posts that I think are suitable for a beginner: read them in the order given.
How to Create a Simple Cyclostationary Signal: Rectangular-Pulse BPSK
The Cyclic Autocorrelation Function
The Spectral Correlation Function
Comments on “Detection of Almost-Cyclostationarity: An Approach Based on a Multiple Hypothesis Test” by S. Horstmann et al
I recently came across the conference paper in the post title (The Literature [R101]). Let’s take a look.
The paper is concerned with “detect[ing] the presence of ACS signals with unknown cycle period.” In other words, blind cyclostationary-signal detection and cycle-frequency estimation. Of particular importance to the authors is the case in which the “period of cyclostationarity” is not equal to an integer number of samples. They seem to think this is a new and difficult problem. By my lights, it isn’t. But maybe I’m missing something. Let me know in the Comments.
CSP Estimators: The FFT Accumulation Method
Let’s look at another spectral correlation function estimator: the FFT Accumulation Method (FAM). This estimator is in the time-smoothing category, is exhaustive in that it is designed to compute estimates of the spectral correlation function over its entire principal domain, and is efficient, so that it is a competitor to the Strip Spectral Correlation Analyzer (SSCA) method. I implemented my version of the FAM by using the paper by Roberts et al (The Literature [R4]). If you follow the equations closely, you can successfully implement the estimator from that paper. The tricky part, as with the SSCA, is correctly associating the outputs of the coded equations to their proper 
Computational Costs for Spectral Correlation Estimators
Let’s look at the computational costs for spectral-correlation analysis using the three main estimators I’ve previously described on the CSP Blog: the frequency-smoothing method (FSM), the time-smoothing method (TSM), and the strip spectral correlation analyzer (SSCA).
We’ll see that the FSM and TSM are the low-cost options when estimating the spectral correlation function for a few cycle frequencies and that the SSCA is the low-cost option when estimating the spectral correlation function for many cycle frequencies. That is, the TSM and FSM are good options for directed analysis using prior information (values of cycle frequencies) and the SSCA is a good option for exhaustive blind analysis, for which there is no prior information available.
The Cycle Detectors
Let’s take a look at a class of signal-presence detectors that exploit cyclostationarity and in doing so illustrate the good things that can happen with CSP whenever cochannel interference is present, or noise models deviate from simple additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). I’m referring to the cycle detectors, the first CSP algorithms I ever studied.
CSP Estimators: The Strip Spectral Correlation Analyzer
In this post I present a very useful blind cycle-frequency estimator known in the literature as the strip spectral correlation analyzer (SSCA) (The Literature [R3-R5]). We’ve covered the basics of the frequency-smoothing method (FSM) and the time-smoothing method (TSM) of estimating the spectral correlation function (SCF) in previous posts. The TSM and FSM are efficient estimators of the SCF when it is desired to estimate it for one or a few cycle frequencies (CFs). The SSCA, on the other hand, is efficient when we want to estimate the SCF for all CFs.
See also an alternate method of exhaustive SCF estimation: The FFT Accumulation Method.
The Spectral Coherence Function
In this post I introduce the spectral coherence function, or just coherence. It deserves its own post because the coherence is a useful detection statistic for blindly determining significant cycle frequencies of arbitrary data records.
Let’s start with reviewing the standard correlation coefficient 
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where 
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![m_Y = E[Y] \hfill (3)](http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=m_Y+%3D+E%5BY%5D+%5Chfill+%283%29&bg=e9e7e3&fg=6a524a&s=0 "m_Y = E[Y] \hfill (3)")
![\sigma_X^2 = E[(X-m_X)^2] \hfill (4)](http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Csigma_X%5E2+%3D+E%5B%28X-m_X%29%5E2%5D+%5Chfill+%284%29&bg=e9e7e3&fg=6a524a&s=0 "\sigma_X^2 = E[(X-m_X)^2] \hfill (4)")
![\sigma_Y^2 = E[(Y-m_Y)^2] \hfill (5)](http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Csigma_Y%5E2+%3D+E%5B%28Y-m_Y%29%5E2%5D+%5Chfill+%285%29&bg=e9e7e3&fg=6a524a&s=0 "\sigma_Y^2 = E[(Y-m_Y)^2] \hfill (5)")
So the correlation coefficient is the covariance between