• DocumentCode
    2468385
  • Title

    Maximum likelihood estimation of positive definite Hermitian Toeplitz matrices using outer approximations

  • Author

    Davis, Linda ; Evans, Rob ; Polak, Elijah

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    14-16 Sep 1998
  • Firstpage
    49
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the constrained maximum likelihood estimate of a covariance matrix, which is known to be positive definite and Hermitian Toeplitz. We propose a new approach based on the method of outer approximations. The proposed algorithm is demonstrated with an example
  • Keywords
    Hermitian matrices; Toeplitz matrices; covariance matrices; maximum likelihood estimation; signal processing; constrained maximum likelihood estimate; covariance matrix; maximum likelihood estimation; outer approximations; positive definite Hermitian Toeplitz matrices; positive definite matrix; signal processing problems; Costs; Covariance matrix; Information processing; Iterative algorithms; Least squares approximation; Least squares methods; Matrix decomposition; Maximum likelihood estimation; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Statistical Signal and Array Processing, 1998. Proceedings., Ninth IEEE SP Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Portland, OR
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5010-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SSAP.1998.739331
  • Filename
    739331