• DocumentCode
    1193861
  • Title

    Counting the degrees of freedom when using AIC and MDL to detect signals

  • Author

    Williams, Douglas B.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Volume
    42
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    11/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    3282
  • Lastpage
    3284
  • Abstract
    In the well known paper by Wax and Kailath (1985), the AIC and MDL criteria for determining the number of signals in a multichannel time-series are presented. An essential element of these criteria is the number of degrees of freedom in the model. We propose a different number for the degrees of freedom and show that the resulting MDL criterion performs noticeably better than the previous criterion. We also show that the same criteria are appropriate for either real or complex data
  • Keywords
    information theory; signal detection; time series; AIC; MDL; complex data; degrees of freedom; information theory; multichannel time-series; real data; signal detection; Covariance matrix; Digital signal processing; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Gaussian processes; Probability density function; Signal detection; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1053-587X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/78.330399
  • Filename
    330399