A fresh look at the Bayesian bounds of the Weiss-Weinstein family

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5334-5352

  Renaux, Alexandre ^a   Forster, Philippe ^b,c   Larzabal, Pascal ^c,d   Richmond, Christ D ^e   Nehorai, Arye ^f  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian bounds on the MSE; Weiss Weinstein family

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STRAIN ENERGY;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN BOUNDS; BAYESIAN BOUNDS ON THE MSE; CLOSED-FORM; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; EXTENDING; GAUSSIAN; MEAN SQUAREST; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; OBSERVATION MODELS; PARAMETERIZED; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; WEISS-WEINSTEIN FAMILY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 54949113694     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.927075     Document Type: Article

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