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Table 1 Nomenclature

From: A novel approach to extracting useful information from noisy TFDs using 2D local entropy measures

α

Entropy order

β

Constant

χ

Entropy mask

δ

Window size

δ+

Optimal window size

Γ

Threshold parameter

ω(t)

Smoothing window

\(\overline {L}\)

The largest lower limit of D

σ

Estimation variance

τ

Continuous lag

τ+

Optimal threshold

\(\underline {U}\)

The smallest upper limit of D

C(t,f)

TFD of the signal

D

Confidence interval

E

Energy

f

Continuous frequency

FN

False negatives

FP

False positives

g

Time smoothing window

H

Entropy

h

Frequency smoothing window

H(s)

Shannon entropy

\(H^{\delta }_{\rho }\)

Rényi entropy for window size

\(H^{\text {RICI}}_{\rho (t,f)}\)

Optimal Rényi entropy

L

Lower limit of D

M

Frequency bins

Mp

Distribution

N

Number of samples

O

Overlapping confidence intervals

pi

Probability value

R(n,δ)

Ratio of finite interval and confidence interval

Rc

Threshold

t

Continuous time

TN

True negatives

TP

True positives

U

Upper limit of D

x(t)

Signal