“…The method can be extended to a general class of Hilbert spaces, to form what we call pre-orthogonal stochastic adaptive Fourier decompositions (POSAFDs) ( [42]). The SAFD methods to be emphasised in this paper belong to what is called adaptive Fourier decomposition (AFD), the latter has been undergoing sophisticated developments with a number of variations including adaptive Fourier decomposition (AFD, see [52,41]), preorthogonal adaptive Fourier decomposition (POAFD, suitable for contexts in which a Takenaka-Malmquist (TM) system is unavailable, see [51,43,46,47]), unwinding Blaschke expansion (unwinding AFD, independently developed also by Coifman et al), see [16,14,40,49], n-best reproducing kernel approximation (n-best AFD, see [50,48]), and also in higher dimensions for matrix-valued functions ( [2,3]). The study of the AFD type algorithms was originated from signal decomposition into meaningful positive instantaneous frequency in physics ( [52]).…”