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Sculpting priors

Signal Processing 2024-08-09 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Bayesian priors are investigated for detecting targets of known spectral signature (but unknown strength) in cluttered backgrounds. A specific problem is the construction (or ``sculpting'') of a Bayesian prior that uniformly outperforms its non-Bayesian counterpart, the nominally sub-optimal but widely used Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.04572,
  title  = {Sculpting priors},
  author = {James Theiler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04572},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 figures

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