Abstract. The strong consistency of least squares estimators of unknown amplitudes and angular frequencies of the sum of harmonic oscillations observed in a strongly dependent Gaussian stationary noise is proved in the paper.
Let a stochastic process(1)be observed, where, is a stochastic process defined on a complete probability space (Ω, , P) and satisfying the following condition.A1. ε(t), t ∈ R 1 , is a real, measurable, mean square continuous, stationary, Gaussian, zero-mean stochastic process. We also assume that at least one of the following two conditions holds.
A2. The correlation function of the process ε(t), t ∈ R1 , is such thatwhere L(t) is a function slowly varying at infinity and B(0) = 1. A3.The statistical estimation of unknown amplitudes and angular frequencies (3) of a sum of harmonic oscillations (2) observed in a random noise ε(t) is a probabilistic setting of the problem of detection of hidden periodicities. Investigations of this problem as well as of its deterministic counterpart (ε(t) ≡ 0) are initiated by Lagrange. Many applications of this problem in numerous scientific fields are also known (see [1]).2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 62J02; Secondary 62J99. Key words and phrases. The detection of hidden periodicities, least squares estimator, consistency, long range dependence.