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Comments on “trivial influences: A doubly stochastic poisson process model permits the detection of arbitrarily small electromagnetic signals”
Author(s) -
Adair Robert K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
bioelectromagnetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.435
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-186X
pISSN - 0197-8462
DOI - 10.1002/bem.2250160104
Subject(s) - noise (video) , poisson process , signal (programming language) , aside , poisson distribution , process (computing) , computer science , stochastic process , statistical physics , mathematics , physics , artificial intelligence , statistics , philosophy , linguistics , image (mathematics) , programming language , operating system
I show that Pickard's mathematics cannot properly describe the effects of time‐correlated signals in the presence of incoherent noise and cannot, therefore, properly address most signal‐to‐noise questions. Aside from this objection, I show that Pickard's conclusions follow from an ingenuous definition of “small signals” and do not hold for realistic models of biological processes and more conventional descriptions of “small signals.” © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.