Essential Statistics and Tools for Complex Random Variables

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5400-5408

  Eriksson, Jan ^a   Ollila, Esa ^a   Koivunen, Visa ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Circularity; complex moments and cumulants; complex random variables; Fa di Bruno's formula; Newton's method; properness; Taylor's series; differentiability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055189     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2054085     Document Type: Article

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