DocumentCode
1453578
Title
Estimation of prescribed false alarm rate thresholds from local data using tolerance intervals
Author
Real, E.C. ; Tufts, D.W.
Author_Institution
Signal Processing Center of Technol., Lockheed Martin Co., Nashua, NH, USA
Volume
6
Issue
1
fYear
1999
Firstpage
8
Lastpage
10
Abstract
We present a method for estimating threshold values for signal detection and classification systems in which a prescribed value of false alarm probability is needed. The threshold values are determined directly from observed test statistic data without knowledge of the probability distribution of the data. Our method uses the concept of tolerance intervals from nonparametric statistics.
Keywords
signal classification; signal detection; statistical analysis; tolerance analysis; adaptive CFAR thresholds; false alarm probability; local data; nonadaptive CFAR thresholds; nonparametric statistics; prescribed false alarm rate thresholds; signal classification; signal detection; statistical signal processing; test statistic data; threshold values estimation; tolerance intervals; Decision making; Maximum likelihood detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Probability distribution; Signal detection; Signal processing; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1070-9908
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/97.736236
Filename
736236
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