Time-Delay Estimation for Filtered Poisson Processes Using an EM-Type Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 2112-2123

  Antoniadis, Nikolaos ^a   Hero, Alfred O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WHITE NOISE;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; FILTERED POISSON PROCESSES; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0028485070     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.301846     Document Type: Article

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