Statistical resolution limits and the complexified Cramér-Rao bound

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1597-1609

  Smith, Steven Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Adaptive estimation; Adaptive signal processing; Amplitude estimation; Direction of arrival estimation; Error analysis; ESPRIT; Estimation; Fisher information; Image resolution; Maximum likelihood estimation; MUSIC; Parameter estimation; Parameter space methods; Phase estimation; Radar resolution; Signal resolution; Spectral analysis; Superresolution; Ultra wideband processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARRAYS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION; ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARAMETER SPACE METHODS; PHASE ESTIMATION; ULTRAWIDEBAND PROCESSING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 18844380233     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.845426     Document Type: Article

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