Title
Novel Robust Normality Measure for Sparse Data and its Application for Weak Signal Detection
Abstract
In this paper, an important statistical signal processing characteristic, namely Gaussianity or normality, is studied. In contrast to the existing Gaussianity measures, we propose a novel measure, which is based on Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) between the Gaussian probability density function (PDF) and the generalized Gaussian PDF incorporated with the skewness for the normality test. In our studies, conventional normality tests may often not be robust when they are employed for the non-Gaussian processes with symmetric PDFs. We call this new test as the KGGS test. Our proposed KGGS test is heuristically justified to be more robust than conventional tests for different PDFs, especially symmetric PDFs. A popular application of the normality test for QPSK signal detections is also presented to verify the effectiveness of our proposed technique and the simulation results demonstrate that our new KGGS test would outperform all others even for sparse data samples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TWC.2013.040213.121055
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
kullback-leibler divergence,gaussianity,normality tests,signal detection,probability,gaussian processes,kullback leibler divergence
Normality,Normality test,Skewness,Pattern recognition,Gaussian random field,Gaussian,Gaussian process,Artificial intelligence,Statistical signal processing,Probability density function,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
5
1536-1276
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.47
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lu Lu130.84
Kun Yan221.48
Hsiao-chun Wu395997.99
Shih Yu Chang435130.40