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On nonparametric spectral estimation

Tomas Sundin, +1 more
- Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 169-181
TLDR
The Cramér-Rao bound for a general nonparametric spectral estimation problem is derived under a local smoothness condition and under the aforementioned condition the Thomson method (TM) and Daniell method (DM) for power spectral density (PSD) estimation can be interpreted as approximations of the maximum likelihood PSD estimator.
Abstract
In this paper the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for a general nonparametric spectral estimation problem is derived under a local smoothness condition (more exactly, the spectrum is assumed to be well approximated by a piecewise constant function). Furthermore it is shown that under the aforementioned condition the Thomson (TM) and Danieli (DM) methods for power spectral density (PSD) estimation can be interpreted as approximations of the maximum likelihood PSD estimator. Finally the statistical efficiency of the TM and DM as nonparametric PSD estimators is examined and also compared to the CRB for ARMA-based PSD estimation. In particular for broadband signals, the TM and DM almost achieve the derived nonparametric performance bound and can therefore be considered to be nearly optimal.

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