Design of a robust parameter estimator for nominally Laplacian noise /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bhagawat, Pankaj, 1977-
Other Authors: Halverson, Don R. (Thesis advisor)
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2003.
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Online Access:Link to OAK Trust copy
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Abstract:In this work we have made use of a geometric approach which quantifies robustness and performance and we finally combine them using a cost function. In particular, we calculate the robustness of the estimate of standard deviation of nominally Laplacian distribution. As this distribution is imperfectly known, we employ a more general family, the generalized Gaussian; Laplacian distribution, is one of the members of this family. We compute parameter estimates and present a classical algorithm which is then analyzed for distribution from the generalized Gaussian family. We calculate the mean squared error according to the censoring height k. We measure performance as a function of (1/MSE) and combine it with robustness using a cost criterion and design a robust estimator which optimizes a mix of performance and robustness specified by the user.
Item Description:"Major Subject: Electrical Engineering"
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.