A baker's dozen magnitude approximations and their detection statistics

1 January 1976

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Vol. AES-12 (1) , 86-89
https://doi.org/10.1109/taes.1976.308223

Abstract

Thirteen linear approximations to the square root of the sum of the squares operation are examined and compared as to their peak error, average error, mean-squared error, and, most importantly, for digital radar signal processing the increase in SNR (over an exact linear detector) needed to maintain a specified PD and PFA.

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