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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barkat, Mourad.
Signal detection and estimation/Mourad Barkat. 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Signal detection. 2. Stochastic processes. 3. Estimation theory. 4. Radar. I. Title.

TK5102.5.B338 2005
621.382 ?2 dc22
2005048031

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Barkat, Mourad

Signal detection and estimation. 2nd ed. (Artech House radar library)
1. Signal detection 2. Stochastic processes 3. Estimation theory
I. Title
621.3 ?822
10:1-58053-070-2

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To my wife and my children

About the Author

Mourad Barkat received a B.S. with high honors, magna cum laude, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1981, 1983, and 1987, respectively.

From 1987 to 1991, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the...