In the theories of modulation and of stochastic processes, random modulation is the creation of a new signal from two other signals by the process of quadrature amplitude modulation. In particular, the two signals are considered as being random processes. For applications, the two original signals need have a limited frequency range, and these are used to modulate a third sinusoidal carrier signal whose frequency is above the range of frequencies contained in the original signals.

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The random modulation procedure starts with two stochastic baseband signals,   and  , whose frequency spectrum is non-zero only for  . It applies quadrature modulation to combine these with a carrier frequency   (with  ) to form the signal   given by

 

where   is the equivalent baseband representation of the modulated signal  

 

In the following it is assumed that   and   are two real jointly wide sense stationary processes. It can be shown[citation needed] that the new signal   is wide sense stationary if and only if   is circular complex, i.e. if and only if   and   are such that

 

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