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Errors in estimating period using sine-fitting (left) and Lomb-Scargle (right) methods for 1,000 noisy sinusoids with normally distributed periods (mean 24 h, SD 0.5 h), amplitude 1, noise standard deviation 0.5 with pink noise, and quadratic trend, for indicated number of days and sampling interval.
