Applications of the empirical characteristic function to estimation and detection problems

Signal Processing

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-219

  Ilow, Jacek ^a   Hatzinakos, Dimitris ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Detection estimation; stable and K distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMPIRICAL CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0032028263     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(97)00219-3     Document Type: Article

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