Kurtosis index to characterise near line-of-sight conditions in reverberating chambers

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-179

  Sorrentino, Antonio ^a   Ferrara, Giuseppe ^a   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KURTOSIS INDICES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; REVERBERATING CHAMBER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS;

EID: 84884191711     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2012.0478     Document Type: Article

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