Arithmetic average, geometric average, and ranking: application to incoherent scatter radar data processing

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1227-1237

  Zhou, Q H ^a   Zhou, Q N ^b   Mathews, J D ^b  

^a ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; GEOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ARITHMETIC AVERAGE; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; GEOMETRIC AVERAGE; INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR; RANKING; STATISTICAL ERROR; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL ERRORS; STATISTICAL VARIANCE;

RADAR;

EID: 0033317419     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900062     Document Type: Article

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