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This letter aims at deriving a Semiparametric Slepian-Bangs (SSB) formula for Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distributed data vectors. The Semiparametric Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (SCRB), related to the proposed SSB formula, provides a…
This letter aims at extending the Constrained Semiparametric Cramer-Rao Bound (CSCRB) for the joint estimation of mean vector and scatter matrix of Real Elliptically Symmetric (RES) distributions to Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES)…
This paper is mainly dedicated to an extension of the Slepian-Bangs formula to non-circular complex elliptical symmetric (NC-CES) distributions, which is derived from a new stochastic representation theorem. This formula includes the…
This paper has a twofold goal. The first aim is to provide a deeper understanding of the family of the Real Elliptically Symmetric (RES) distributions by investigating their intrinsic semiparametric nature. The second aim is to derive a…
This chapter presents a short overview of real elliptically symmetric (RES) distributions, complemented by circular complex elliptically symmetric (C-CES) and noncircular CES (NC-CES) distributions as complex representations of RES…
This paper aims at presenting a numerical investigation of the statistical efficiency of the MUSIC (with different covariance matrix estimates) and the IAA-APES Direction of Arrivals (DOAs) estimation algorithms under a general Complex…
The Slepian-Bangs formula provides a very convenient way to compute the Fisher information matrix (FIM) for Gaussian distributed data. The aim of this letter is to extend it to a larger family of distributions, namely elliptically contoured…
The joint estimation of the location vector and the shape matrix of a set of independent and identically Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distributed observations is investigated from both the theoretical and computational viewpoints.…
This paper aims at providing a fresh look at semiparametric estimation theory and, in particular, at the Semiparametric Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (SCRB). Semiparametric models are characterized by a finite-dimensional parameter vector of…
Elliptically symmetric distributions are a classic example of a semiparametric model where the location vector and the scatter matrix (or a parameterization of them) are the two finite-dimensional parameters of interest, while the density…
We propose semiparametric estimators, called elliptical skew-(S)KEPTIC, for efficiently and robustly estimating non-Gaussian graphical models. Our approach extends the semiparametric elliptical framework to the meta skew-elliptical family,…
Covariance matrices play a major role in statistics, signal processing and machine learning applications. This paper focuses on the \textit{semiparametric} covariance/scatter matrix estimation problem in elliptical distributions. The class…
We propose the -- to the best of our knowledge -- first fully functional implementation of the ``Separation by a Convex Body'' (SCB) approach first outlined in Grzybowski et al. [1] for classification, separating two data sets using an…
This paper aims at presenting a simulative analysis of the main properties of a new $R$-estimator of shape matrices in Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distributed observations. First proposed by Hallin, Oja and Paindaveine for the…
This paper presents a novel parametric scattering model (PSM) for sensing extended targets in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The PSM addresses the limitations of traditional models by efficiently capturing the target's…
In this paper, we analyze the performance of the estimation of Laplacian matrices under general observation models. Laplacian matrix estimation involves structural constraints, including symmetry and null-space properties, along with matrix…
In this paper, we construct the simultaneous confidence band (SCB) for the nonparametric component in partially linear panel data models with fixed effects. We remove the fixed effects, and further obtain the estimators of parametric and…
Clustering high-dimensional data is especially challenging when cluster distributions are heavy tailed and only approximately elliptical. Existing high-dimensional methods are largely built for Gaussian or other light-tailed models, whereas…
A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs emit electromagnetic (EM) probing…
This paper proposes an original approach to better understanding the behavior of robust scatter matrix $M$-estimators. Scatter matrices are of particular interest for many signal processing applications since the resulting performance…