Statistical Signal Processing AA 2005/06 Introduction: examples of statistical reasoning (2h) [1]. Rudiments of Multivariate Normal Theory (10h) [1]. Estimation Theory: Sufficiency and MVUB Estimators. Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Cramer-Rao bound; Bayes estimators: minimum mean-squared error (MMSE); linear MMSE estimators; Wiener filtering (20 h) [1, 2, 3, 4]. Detection Theory: Neyman-Pearson Lemma, Testing of composite binary hypotheses, UMP tests, Constant False Alarm Rate property; Bayes detectors (15h) [1, 2, 3, 4]. Applications to radar signal processing (10h) [2]. Applications to communication theory (15h) [5]. References [1] L. L. Scharf, ``Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estimation, and Time Series Analysis,’’ Addison-Wesley, 1991. [2] H. L. Van trees, ``Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory,’’ Part. 1 e 4, John Wiley & Sons. [3] S. M. Kay: ``Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume I: Estimation Theory,’’ Prentice-Hall, 1993. [4] S. M. Kay: ``Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume I: Detection Theory,’’ Prentice-Hall, 1998. [5] U. Mengali, A. N. D’Andrea: ``Synchronization Techniques for Digital Receivers,’’ Plenum Press, 1997.