Parameter estimation problems with singular information matrices

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-90

  Stoica, Petre ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND (CRB); FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX (FIM);

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0035120825     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.890346     Document Type: Article

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