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        "title": "An irregular signal can have a stable pattern of relationships",
        "text": "A signal may fluctuate without settling at one value. Still, its average and the correlation between two readings may stay unchanged when both observation times are shifted together. This is second-order stationarity: it controls first and second moments, not every possible feature of the joint distribution. Khintchine develops a spectral theory for this setting. The question is how much the pattern of correlations can tell us about the frequencies and long-run behavior hidden in a process."
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        "text": "Mean-square continuity concerns an average squared difference, not continuity of each sample path. Similarly, the continuous-spectrum remainder has an averaged squared-correlation decay statement; it need not have pointwise correlation decay. Long-run averages become Cauchy in mean square or probability under the stated setting, but that alone does not identify the ensemble mean or prove an almost-sure ergodic theorem. These distinctions prevent the word stationary from carrying more conclusions than its assumptions support."
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