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Detection and Extraction of Signals in Noise from the Point of View of Statistical Decision Theory. I

1955; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Volume: 3; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1137/0103017

2168-3484

David Middleton, David Van Meter,

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