Robust Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 2891-2906

  Williams, Douglas B ^a   Johnson, Don H ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

COVARIANCE MATRICES; NON GAUSSIAN NOISE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0027667025     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.236511     Document Type: Article

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