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DOC. 29 DETERMINATION
OF STATISTICAL
VALUES
Lecture delivered
to the
Societe
suisse de
physique in Basel,
28
February
1914.
Published
in
Archives des sciences
physiques et
naturelles
37
(1914):
254-256. Published
15
March
1914.
[1]See
Yaglom
1985
for
a
discussion of this
paper
in the
light
of later
developments
in the
theory
of
stationary
random
processes.
See
also Einstein's
comments
on
this
work
in
Einstein
to
Heinrich
Zangger,
10
March
1914 (Vol.
5,
Doc.
513).
[2]See,
for
instance,
Planck's discussion of
the
Fourier
coefficients for
black-body
radiation
in
Planck
1906b,
pp.
118-120. For Einstein's
own use
of
such methods,
see
Einstein and
Hopf
1910b
(Vol.
3,
Doc.
8).
[3]See
Doc. 30
for
more
details
on
this calculation.
[4]Eq.
(2)
is
a
particular
case
of what would later
be
known
as
the Wiener-Khinchin theorem
(see Wiener, N. 1930,
Khinchin
1934).