The Suboptimality of Randomized Tests in Distributed and Quantized Detection Systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 355-361

  Willett, Peter ^a   Warren, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

data fusion; Decentralized detection; quantization; randomization

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; QUANTIZED DETECTION SYSTEMS; RANDOMIZED TESTS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0026838996     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.119692     Document Type: Article

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