A survey on computing Lévy stable distributions and a new MATLAB toolbox

Signal Processing

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 242-251

  Liang, Yingjie ^a   Chen, Wen ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphical user interface; L vy stable distributions; MATLAB toolbox; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DATA FITTINGS; ENGINEERING FIELDS; HIGH DEMAND; MATLAB TOOLBOXES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RANDOM NUMBERS; STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL QUANTITY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVEYS;

MATLAB;

EID: 84866365902     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2012.07.035     Document Type: Article

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