Detection and Estimation Theory

Graduate Course, IISc, 2022

Lecture notes consists of materials from my coursework both at IISc.

  • Lec-1: Introduction
  • Lec-2: Probability Review
  • Lec-3: Binary Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-4: Bayesian Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-5: ML, MAP Detection & Operating Characteristics
  • Lec-6: Minimax and Neyman-Pearson Testing
  • Lec-7: Gaussian Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-8: Test with Discrete Observations
  • Lec-9: Multiple Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-10: Intro to Composite Testing
  • Lec-11: Composite Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-12: UMP Tests, Karlin-Rubin Theorem & GLRT
  • Lec-13: Sequential Hypothesis Testing
  • Lec-14: Sequential Hypothesis Testing Continued
  • Lec-15: Intro to Estimation Theory
  • Lec-16: MAP & MMSE Estimates
  • Lec-17: MMSE properties
  • Lec-18: Linear Least Squares Estimates (LLSE)
  • Lec-19: Properities of LLSE
  • Lec-20: LLSE: some examples
  • Lec-21: Non-random Parameter Estimation
  • Lec-22: Cramer-Rao Lower Bound
  • Lec-23: Consistent and Efficient Estimators
  • Lec-24: Sufficient Statistics & Neyman-Fisher Factorization
  • Lec-25: Rao-Blackwell Theorem
  • Lec-26: Best Linear Unbaised Estimates (BLUE)
  • Lec-27: Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization
  • Lec-28: Kalman Filter
  • Lec-29: Relation between Min-max and Bayesian testing
  • Lec-30: Quickest Change-point Detection
  • Lec-31: Convex Statistical Distances
  • Lec-32: Ali-Silvey Distance
  • Lec-33: Simple Lower Bounds and Chernoff Bounds
  • Lec-34: Application of Chernoff Bounds
  • Lec-35: Bounds on Classification error - coming soon
  • Lec-36: Theory of Large Deviation - coming soon - coming soon