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Rating: Summary: Not well prepared as a book Review: As a book, I don't think it is well prepared. A lot of equations can be put into appendix and more descriptions can be done on the underlying physics, modeling approach and the meaning of the algorithms. Others like computation/speed trade off of each approach/algorithm are worthy to be addressed too.Also, I have seen duplicated (almost) paragraphs for expanding a one-dimension solution to n-dimensions that is not necessary to be put into the main body of the book
Rating: Summary: Equations Galore Review: Barry Quinn and Ted Hannan are statisticians with a longstanding interest in periodic signals. As someone who has worked with Barry (although, unfortunately, not Ted), I think this book is worth the money. Barry is a statistician, so he "talks funny" from this engineer's viewpoint. However, the book starts off relatively easily in Chapter 1 and builds up to some very rigorous, but very applicable mathematics. While Barry is currently professor of statistics at UMIST in Manchester, he spent much time working in defence (with a 'c') research labs on sonar signal processing problems --- so he has worked on some of the toughest real-world* problems in signal processing. * If that's applicable to the defence industry or the defense industry**. ** In my experience, the "real-world" is always somewhere where you ain't.
Rating: Summary: Author's note Review: I am writing this review to counter the previous anonymous review, and as there does not appear to be an author's review page. Forgive me for giving 5 stars, but I would hardly have given it none! This book is meant for those interested in algorithms for frequency estimation, and the statistical behaviour/performance of these algorithms. It necessarily contains lots of nice equations, as these are needed to understand the problems and solutions properly. It is not meant to be bedtime reading. Seventeen pages of useful Matlab code would seem pretty generous to me - the book is not a Matlab Primer. My programs are also available from my web page. These are corrected versions of the ones in the book (there were a few typos).
Rating: Summary: Equations Galore Review: This book contains an abundance of equations, which put me to sleep. I think it would gain a wider audience if it included some real-world applications coupled with matlab example programs. The 259-page book only contains 17-pages of matlab code.
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