Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimation

Graph showing threshold phenomenon in nonlinear estimation.

Example of threshold phenomenon in nonlinear estimation. (Image courtesy of Alan Willsky and Gregory Wornell.)

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MIT Course Number

6.432

As Taught In

Spring 2004

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This course examines the fundamentals of detection and estimation for signal processing, communications, and control. Topics covered include: vector spaces of random variables; Bayesian and Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing; Bayesian and nonrandom parameter estimation; minimum-variance unbiased estimators and the Cramer-Rao bounds; representations for stochastic processes, shaping and whitening filters, and Karhunen-Loeve expansions; and detection and estimation from waveform observations. Advanced topics include: linear prediction and spectral estimation, and Wiener and Kalman filters.

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Gregory Wornell, and Alan Willsky. 6.432 Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimation. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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