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Cramer-Rao Bound Analysis for Frequency Estimation of Sinusoids in Noise

Joy M. Skon-1986-03-24
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The Cramer-Rao inequality is used to determine a lower bound on the variance with which a sinusoidal frequency can be estimated in the presence of Gaussian white noise. A parametric study has elucidated the influence of number of samples (N), sampling frequency (1/A), phase ( ), and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the Cramer-Rao bound. A closed form expression for the asymptotic level to which the Cramer-Rao bound decays is characterized and, for low frequencies, the bound is determined analytically and graphically. The form of the Cramer-Rao bound is linked to resolution in the sampling problem. Identification of trade-offs characterizing the sensitivity of the bound and parameters associated with it are discussed.

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The Cramer-Rao inequality is used to determine a lower bound on the variance with which a sinusoidal frequency can be estimated in the presence of Gaussian white noise. A parametric study has elucidated the influence of number of samples (N), sampling frequency (1/A), phase ( ), and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the Cramer-Rao bound. A closed form expression for the asymptotic level to which the Cramer-Rao bound decays is characterized and, for low frequencies, the bound is determined analytically and graphically. The form of the Cramer-Rao bound is linked to resolution in the sampling problem. Identification of trade-offs characterizing the sensitivity of the bound and parameters associated with it are discussed.

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Cramér–Rao boundSpeech recognitionNoise (video)AcousticsEstimationComputer scienceMathematicsStatistics

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