Troubleshooting Power Spectra Analysis for Time Series Data

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The discussion centers on troubleshooting power spectrum analysis for time series data, specifically addressing an issue where the computed power spectrum yields a significant value only at the first frequency point, with subsequent values near zero. The user initially suspects the calculation method but later resolves the issue independently. This indicates that the problem may lie in the data characteristics or preprocessing steps rather than the analytical method itself.

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This is more of a data analysis question than a mathematics question so feel free to move it to wherever you think it is most likely to be answered.

I have some time series data that looks (just by eye) like it should have several peaks in its power spectrum.

However, when I compute the power spectrum, the function I get is nearly identically zero. It has a very large power value for the first frequency point and then 0 everywhere else.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any ideas what could be happening? I'm pretty sure that the method I am using to calculate the power spectrum is (nearly) good since I can get good results on sine waves and the like. It just doesn't seem to work on any actual data.
 
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