Signal Detection in Gaussian Noise of Unknown Level: An Invariance Application

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1971, Pages 404-411

  Scharf, Louis L ^a   Lytle, Dean W ^b  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0015096127     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1971.1054668     Document Type: Article

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