A COMPARISON OF AVERAGE LIKELIHOOD AND MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS FOR DETECTING RADAR TARGETS OF UNKNOWN DOPPLER FREQUENCY,

Abstract

The performance of the average likelihood and the maximum likelihood ratio tests is compared in detecting a slowly fluctuating target with a Rayleigh amplitude distribution and unknown doppler frequency. The study concludes that since the performance of the two tests does not differ significantly, implemention of the more complex average likelihood ratio detector is not warranted in search radars for the assumed target model. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0646366

Entities

People

  • I. S. Reed
  • L. E. Brennan
  • W. Sollfrey

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Radar
  • Radar Targets
  • Search Radar
  • Targets

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Statistical inference.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.