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Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing: Est imat ion Theory

Steven M. Kay
University of Rhode Island

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Contents
Preface xi
1 1 7 9 12

1 Introduction 1.1 Estimation in Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 The Mathematical Estimation Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Assessing Estimator Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Some Notes to the Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation 15 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15 2.2 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3 Unbiased Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Minimum Variance Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.5 Existence of the Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator . . . . . . . . . 20 2.6 Finding the Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.7 Extension to a Vector Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3 Cramer-Rao Lower Bound 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Estimator Accuracy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4 Cramer-Rao Lower Bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 General CRLB for Signals in White Gaussian Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6 Transformation of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 Extension to a Vector Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 Vector Parameter CRLB for Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9 CRLB for the General Gaussian Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10 Asymptotic CRLB for WSS Gaussian Random Processes . . . . . . . . . 3.1 1 Signal Processing Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3A 3B 3C 3D

Derivation Derivation Derivation Derivation

of Scalar Parameter CRLB of Vector Parameter CRLB of General Gaussian CRLB of Asymptotic CRLB . . . vii

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