Reliable methods for estimating the K-distribution shape parameter

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 288-302

  Abraham, Douglas A ^a   Lyons, Anthony P ^b  

^a CausaSci LLC   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sonar clutter; Bayesian estimation; Boot strapping; Confidence Intervals; K distribution; Parameter estimation; Prior distributions

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SONAR; BAYESIAN ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; K-DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; MATCHED FILTERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METAL ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SONAR; STANDARDS; STRAPPING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77952951900     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2009.2025645     Document Type: Article

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