1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview of Search Methods
2. Analysis
2.1 Simulating pulsar signals
2.2 Searching Methods on Simulated Data
3. RESULTS FROM SIMULATED DATA
4. RESULTS FROM REAL DATA
4.1 Observational data
4.2 Quantitative performance
5. DISCUSSION
5.1 Nulling duration vs Nulling fraction
5.2 Comparison of the search methods on simulated data
5.3 Critique of the Simulation
5.4 Real data
5.5 Boolean vs Quantitative comparison
5.6 Recommendations for future surveys
6. CONCLUSION