Talk:Digital Signal Processing/Windowing

"A nieve approach, the rectangular window, involves simply truncating the dataset before and after the window, while not modifying the contents of the window at all. However, as we will see, this is a poor method of windowing and causes power leakage."

nieve == naive?

power leakage == spectral leakage? I am far from being an expert but it seems to me that statisticians would talk about 'power leakage' but most dsp texts would refer to 'spectral leakage'. To an electronics person, spectral leakage makes a lot more sense.

A particular favorite reference is 'A Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing'. http://www.dspguide.com/ It is aimed at people who actually want to implement dsp. Most textbooks ignore spectral leakage. It's a major gotcha. If you don't know about it, your attempts at fft are doomed!