Low-rank estimation of higher order statistics

  • Authors:
  • T.F. Andre;R.D. Nowak;B.D. Van Veen

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Low-rank estimators for higher order statistics are considered in this paper. The bias-variance tradeoff is analyzed for low-rank estimators of higher order statistics using a tensor product formulation for the moments and cumulants. In general, the low-rank estimators have a larger bias and smaller variance than the corresponding full-rank estimator, and the mean-squared error can be significantly smaller. This makes the low-rank estimators extremely useful for signal processing algorithms based on sample estimates of the higher order statistics. The low-rank estimators also offer considerable reductions in the computational complexity of such algorithms. The design of subspaces to optimize the tradeoffs between bias, variance, and computation is discussed, and a noisy input, noisy output system identification problem is used to illustrate the results