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Summary: A Classic Text
Review: I have just taken this course from Dr. Van Trees at GMU. Est&Det organized many concepts taught in other graduate engineering courses into a coherent philosophy. The result is not only a rich understanding of estimation and detection, but also random processes, Wiener filtering, Kalman filtering, radar and communications theory etc. The course was taught directly from the text with little outside material. Very little has become obsolete in the 30+ years since it was written. The strong positives of this book are the philosophical organization, clear concise writing, and incredibly well conceived homework problems. The only negative of the book is that there are many proofs done in great detail. This provides the necessary foundation for the material, but also makes it easy for the student to lose track of the bigger picture. Dr. Van Trees tends to try to drive home the higher level concepts while glossing over many of the details when he is lecturing. The exercise problems then force the student to give the necessary attention to pertinent details. In my opinion, this is an excellent approach to teaching the material. Overall, this course was as good as any I've every taken. The text is as important and useful as any other I have.
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