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6.432 Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimation


Fundamentals of detection and estimation for signal processing, communications, and control. 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; Karhunen-Loeve expansions. Detection and estimation from waveform observations. Advanced topics; linear prediction and spectral estimation; Wiener and Kalman filters.