Spring 2013 textbook list
The Spring 2013 ECE textbook list is available online for students.
Current Prerequisites & Course Offering
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ECE 5714 Robust Estimation and Filtering (3C)
An introduction to the analysis and design of maximum likelihood and robust estimators and filters. Maximum likelihood estimation theory: consistency, asymptotic efficiency, sufficiency. Robust estimation theory: qualitative robustness, breakdown point, influence function, change-of-variance function. Robust estimators: M-estimators, generalized M-estimators, high-breaddown estimators.
What is the reason for this course?
Robust estimation theories have undergone important developments that need to be introduced in various engineering fields such as signal processing, communications, radar systems and electric power systems, to cite a few. The cornerstones of these developments are the robustness concepts of breakdown point and influence function that enable the student to perform the analysis and design of estimators with desired requirements in view of their applications to engineering problems.
Typically offered: Spring. Program Area: Systems/Controls.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ECE 5605.
Why are these prerequisites or corequisites required?
This course requires a working knowledge of probability and stochastic processes as taught in 5605.
Department Syllabus Information:
Major Measurable Learning Objectives:- Explain maximum likelihood and robust estimation theories and methods;
- Evaluate the asymptotic efficiency, the breakdown point and the influence function of an M-estimator;
- Develop maximum likelihood and robust parameter estimation methods in regression and for ARMA models;
- Develop robust Kalman filters and evaluate their statistical properties;
- Estimate the parameters of Fractional ARIMA models for long memory processes;
- Apply maximum likelihood and robust estimation methods to engineering systems.
| Course Topics | |
|---|---|
| Topic | Percentage |
| Probability distribution theory | 10% |
| Robust estimators of location and scale | 10% |
| Maximum Likelihood estimation theory and methods | 15% |
| Robust estimation theories and methods | 20% |
| Robust estimators in regression and applications | 15% |
| Robust estimation of ARMA models and applications | 10% |
| Robust Kalman filter and applications | 10% |
| Estimation of Fractional ARIMA models and applications | 10% |