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n. - Tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ; The curve of y=sin x.

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  • The reason that the sinusoid is optional is that sometimes without the sinusoid, the estimated lines end up with a wavy component.
  • The "sinusoid" form in the autocorrelation is quite common in CRU data many other gridcells are stronger and suggests to me that the normalization has not been performed...
  • Adding a sinusoid will help remove that wavy component.
  • In fact, smoothing the data would yield a curve roughly approximating a sinusoid.
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