On the Derivation and Numerical Evaluation of the Weibull-Rician Distribution

1 November 1980

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

Vol. AES-16 (6) , 864-867
https://doi.org/10.1109/taes.1980.309013

Abstract

The Weibull-Rician distribution and density functions are derived by a method based on conditional probability. The derivation is much simpler than the usual Rician approach, giving both the distribution and density as single integrals that are easy to evaluate numerically.

Keywords

CLUTTER
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
RICIAN CHANNELS
SYMMETRIC MATRICES
MISSILES
DENSITY MEASUREMENT
LOSS MEASUREMENT
MEASUREMENT UNITS

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Radar Detection in Weibull Clutter
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 1976