Parameter Estimation in the Presence of Bounded Data Uncertainties

  • Authors:
  • S. Chandrasekaran;G. H. Golub;M. Gu;A. H. Sayed

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We formulate and solve a new parameter estimation problem in the presence of data uncertainties. The new method is suitable when a priori bounds on the uncertain data are available, and its solution leads to more meaningful results, especially when compared with other methods such as total least-squares and robust estimation. Its superior performance is due to the fact that the new method guarantees that the effect of the uncertainties will never be unnecessarily over-estimated, beyond what is reasonably assumed by the a priori bounds. A geometric interpretation of the solution is provided, along with a closed form expression for it. We also consider the case in which only selected columns of the coefficient matrix are subject to perturbations.