Résumé
This document presents and describes as clearly as possible the different steps leading to the elaboration of an usefull and efficient software for detecting the presence and significance of a period in unequally sampled time series data.Knowing why this type of method is necessary for astronomers (chapter 1), the user's requirements (chapter 2), and the implemented methods (chapter 3), the different commands introduced into MIDAS can be specified (chapter 4), and the different steps of this implementation described ( chapter 5).
The sixth chapter deals with some tests realized with the package and an example of execution. In chapter 7, a study of package 's performance is done, leading to possible improvments. Brief conclusions containing other fields of application and future developments are made in the eighth chapter .
More details about MIDAS 's hardware configuration and the data structure (appendix A) , the user's manual contribution (appendix B), Toolpack examples and programs (appendix C), the package's listings (appendix D) and a bibliography are presented at the end of this document.
| la date de réponse | 1987 |
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| langue originale | Anglais |
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| Superviseur | Monique Fraiture (Promoteur) |