Statistical analysis of the nonhomogeneity detector for non-Gaussian interference backgrounds

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2101-2111

  Rangaswamy, Muralidhar ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; GIP; Goodness of fit test; Maximally invariant statistic; ML estimate; NAMF; NHD; Non Gaussian interference; SIRP; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; GENERALIZED INNER PRODUCT (GIP); GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; MAXIMUM INVARIANT STATISTIC; NAMF; NON-GAUSSIAN INTERFERENCE; NONHOMOGENEITY DETECTOR (NHD); SPHERICALLY INVARIANT RANDOM PROCESS (SIRP);

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 20544451350     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.847843     Document Type: Article

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