SUMMARYThis paper considers two classes of digital signal processing schemes, recently proposed by the authors, both combining a nonlinear operation in the time domain with a linear operation in the frequency domain, so as to reduce the envelope fluctuations and allow good power/bandwidth tradeoffs with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. These classes can be adopted within both conventional and two-branch, LInear amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) transmitter structures . The paper addresses the statistical characterisation of the transmitted frequency-domain blocks, so as to evaluate performances by analytical means, in a unified manner. A set of numerical results, which have been obtained with the help of this analytical method, is presented and discussed. These results allow a comparison between the two classes of signal processing schemes, namely for nonlinear operations of the 'clipping' type, when a conventional transmitter structure is employed. They also allow an accurate evaluation of the phase and gain imbalance effects in the two-branch power amplification case.