Parameter estimation of K distribution based on second- kind statistics

13th Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sun, Zengguo ^a   Han, Chongzhao ^a   Yuan, Xianghui ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

K distribution; Log cumulant estimator; Parameter estimation; Secondkind statistics

Indexed keywords

CUMULANTS; K DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SECONDKIND STATISTICS; SHAPE PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION FUSION; METAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 79952410990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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