ABSTRACT In this paper, we present an application of the K-distribution for modeling the amplitude of a backscattered signal in a nondestructive evaluation (NDE) setting, discuss procedures for resolving well-known computational difficulties associated with obtaining maximum likelihood estimates (MLE), and present a comparison with other candidate models for the distribution of the maximum of an unknown number of independent, identically distributed (iid) random variables.
1999 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Vol. 46, pp. 883-887, 1999
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