Unconditional maximum likelihood performance at finite number of samples and high signal-to-noise ratio

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages 2358-2364

  Renaux, Alexander ^a   Forster, Philippe ^b   Boyer, Eric ^a   Larzabal, Pascal ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic performance; Cram r Rao bound; Finite number of data; High signal to noise ratio; Unconditional maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING; SENSOR ARRAYS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS;

FINITE SAMPLES; UNCONDITIONAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34247862091     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.893205     Document Type: Article

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