[Hz]') >>> plt.ylabel('PSD [V**2/Hz]') >>> plt.show() If we average the last half of the spectral density, to exclude the peak, we can recover the noise power on the signal. >>> np.mean(Pxx_den[25000:]) 0.000985320699252543 Now compute and plot the power spectrum. >>> f, Pxx_spec = signal.periodogram(x, fs, 'flattop', scaling='spectrum') >>> plt.figure() >>> plt.semilogy(f, np.sqrt(Pxx_spec)) >>> plt.ylim([1e-4, 1e1]) >>> plt.xlabel('frequency [Hz]') >>> plt.ylabel('Linear spectrum [V RMS]') >>> plt.show() The peak height in the power spectrum is an estimate of the RMS amplitude. >>> np.sqrt(Pxx_spec.max()) 2.0077340678640727 r