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Coherence Function A function related to cross-correlation is the coherence function, defined in terms of power spectral densities and the cross-spectral density by In practice, these quantities can be estimated by time-averaging , , and over successive signal blocks. Let denote time averaging across frames as in Eq.(8.3) above. Then an estimate of the coherence, the sample coherence function , may be defined by Note that the averaging in the numerator occurs before the absolute value is taken. The coherence is a real function between zero and one which gives a measure of orrelation betw