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Bayesian Estimation of the Nakagami-m Fading Parameter

  • Son, Young-Sook (Department of Statistics, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Oh, Mi-Ra (Department of Statistics, Chonnam National University)
  • Published : 2007.08.31
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Abstract

A Bayesian estimation of the Nakagami-m fading parameter is developed. Bayesian estimation is performed by Gibbs sampling, including adaptive rejection sampling. A Monte Carlo study shows that the Bayesian estimators proposed outperform any other estimators reported elsewhere in the sense of bias, variance, and root mean squared error.

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