Measurements of parameters influencing the optimal noise level in stochastic systems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1137-1143

  Andò, Bruno ^a   Baglio, Salvatore ^a   Graziani, Salvatore ^a   Pitrone, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

NOISE ADDED SYSTEM; NOISE LEVEL CONTROL; PARAMETER SETTING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THRESHOLD REDUCTION;

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034297740     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.872943     Document Type: Article

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