Download or read book Elements of Signal Detection and Estimation written by Carl W. Helstrom and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1995 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to signal-detection theory, a subject fundamental to the design of detectors of weak signals in the presence of random noise, and, in particular, to the design of optimal and near optimal receivers of communication, radar, sonar and optical signals.