Spectral kurtosis: from definition to application
Résumé
The objective of this paper is to present the Spectral Kurtosis (SK) as a spectral analysis tool complementary to the classical power spectrum density (PSD). Theoretical definition of the SK is firstly justified, followed by a study of its behavior with respect to the spectral components of signals. An unbiased estimator is thus proposed, with its exact variance, and its signal to noise ratio sensivity. Finally, results are illustrated by applying SK and PSD on synthetic and real signals.