A new approach to modeling signal amplitude statistics by the K distributions

Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, NORSIG 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 62-65

  Eltoft, Torbjørn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Norut IT   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GAUSSIAN MODELS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; OF SCALE MIXTURE; STATISTICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC CIRCULAR GAUSSIAN VARIABLE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 39049168178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NORSIG.2006.275277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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