Lower Bounds For Parametric Estimation with Constraints

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 1285-1301

  Gorman, John D ^a,b   Hero, Alfred O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained estimation; Cramer Rao bounds; multiple parameter estimation; spectrum estimation

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ERROR COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION ERROR; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0025517126     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.59929     Document Type: Article

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