prewhiten

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English

Etymology

pre- +‎ whiten

Verb

prewhiten (third-person singular simple present prewhitens, present participle prewhitening, simple past and past participle prewhitened)

  1. (signal processing, transitive) To modify (a data set) to make the samples statistically independent, analogous to white noise.