Evaluation of decay times in coupled spaces: Reliability analysis of Bayeisan decay time estimation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3707-3715

  Xiang, Ning ^a   Goggans, Paul M ^b   Jasa, Tomsilav ^a   Kleiner, Mendel ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BAYESIAN MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS; DECAY PARAMETERS; INDIVIDUAL VARIANCES; SCHROEDER DECAY FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TIME;

EID: 20444427221     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1903845     Document Type: Article

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