Noise enhancement in robust estimation of location
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2018
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Pan, Y.
Duan, F.
Chapeau-Blondeau, F.
Abbott, D.
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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2018; 66(8):1953-1966
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Yan Pan, Fabing Duan, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Derek Abbott
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In this paper, we investigate the noise benefits to maximum likelihood type estimators (M-estimator) for the robust estimation of a location parameter. Two distinct noise benefits are shown to be accessible under these conditions. With symmetric heavy-tailed noise distributions, the asymptotic efficiency of the estimation can be enhanced by injecting extra noise into the M-estimators. With an asymmetric contaminated noise model having a convex cumulative distribution function, we demonstrate that addition of noise can reduce the maximum bias of the median estimator. These findings extend the analysis of stochastic resonance effects for noise-enhanced signal and information processing.
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© 2018, IEEE.