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Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing: Spectral Estimation, Signal Modeling
Broad coverage but not focuss.
I buy this book about 3 years ago (2000).
My aim was to get a better understanding on statistical dsp.
I got the lecture on advanced dsp on my master degree. I must confess that for me this is not an easy subject to master. Therefore a clear and well explained book on this subject is a very important for me.
But I was dissapointed when I got this book!
Yes, it is broad of coverage, but the content is not focuss.
The connection between previous and next parts of discussion and chapters mostly does not show a clear link.
Yes, it is full of facts, but I need more than bulk of facts: THE WAY OF THINKING, why we do and why we don't do.
It didn't help me to master the subject.
For the reader who want an easy to read and clear in explaination as well as good reasoning and examples, I would suggest to go for another book such as Steven M Kay (Volume 1, Estimation Theory). For me this is a lot better investment of time and money!.
Thank you for reading my review.
where is the errata for this book?
I am trying to study from this book and, because there are some mistakes, I am interested where I could find the errata. I tried at McGraw-Hill without success. Any idea?
Thank you.
A good read, especially for an advanced course on DSP
Review written by: Partho From San Diego
This book gives a brief overview of fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing and Stochastic methods, before graduating to the core topics, namely Signal Modeling and Parameter EstimationNon-parametric estimation, Optimal filter design and structurs, RLS, LMS and Adaptive Filters.
Though high on content, the topical organization of the book leaves a lot of room for improvement. A logical sequence of topics to be studied by an advanced level DSP student is recommended as follows - 5. Linear Signal Models, 9. Signal Modeling and Parametric Spectral Estimation, 6. Optimum Linear Filters, 7. Algorithms and Structures for Optimum Linear Filters, 10. Adaptive Filters, 8. Least Squares Filtering and Prediction, 11. Array Processing. You may have to keep skipping advanced topics towards the end of a chapter, only to come back later after having gone through related background material in other chapters. In this respect, this volume is indeed inconvenient.
However, the authors have more than made up for all its faults with the depth of content, and also the breadth. Assuming that this book is meant for an advanced reader, it is very much self contained, from the ground up, barring a few minor low-level details, which the authors have assumed prior knowledge of.
Chapters 11 and 12 essentially deal with very specialized applications for Radar Engineers and people dealing with esoteric math involving Signal Processing techniques - the case in point are the topics on Blind Deconvolution and Unsupervised Adaptive Filtering.
The authors have also provided some rudimentary background information on Holor algebra (matrix and vector algebra esp.)
I would recommend the reader to keep a more basic text on Mathematical methods for Signal Processing as a cross reference while using this book. A case in point is Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing, by Todd K. Moon and Wynn C. Sterling.
avoid this book
This book was the text for the first part of a sequence on statistical signal processing which I took. We covered chapters 1-7, chapters 4-7 in great detail.
This book almost never explains things well. It has a lot of detail and a lot of repetition, but the essence is usually poorly explained. For every important concept, like the Levinson-Durban algorithm or Yule-Walker equations, I had to read other books to figure them out. Stoica has more insight in 2 pages on the Y-W equations then Manolakis has in a dozen. Also the structure and flow of the detailed developments is astonishingly bad. For example, there are algorithms with steps out of order.
Another problem is the huge number of mistakes. It will take you about an hour per chapter to fix each chapter using the publishers errata sheet. But there are errors not included on the errata list, so watch out.
The few good things about this book include a very detailed table of contents, and useful introductory discussions for each chapter and chapter 1.
This book is a disaster and reads like a so-so first draft. Shame on the publisher for not enforcing more quality. Instead of this loser, I recommend Adaptive Filters by Haykin, Spectral Analysis by Stoica, and Mathematical Methods for Signal Processing by Moon and Stirling among others.
a good text book with things to improve
I had the chance to read most of the text, and selectively attack some of the problems. Here are my opinions:
Pros 1. Some of the chapters, including the first few introduction ones, are very well written, and enjoyable to read; 2. Cover a great deal of technical contents; 3. surely echos the title "statistical and adaptive".
Cons 1. some chapters are a little messy, including the most important ones such as chapter 6 and 10. Much better approaches could be used; 2. excersizes are not so well-designed. Not many really innovative/inspiring problems are given. Need more diverse Difficulty levels. Generally a bit easy. 3. references are not very supportive. If you find one section or discussion interesting, you would like the book to thread a few summit journal papers in this issue to refer. It has not done an outstanding work in this sense.
Over all, an above average text/reference book, good if taught by a good teacher. However, need to bring into a lot insights and better examples/excersizes to make the book a true classic. However, the cons mentioned above plus the text itself gives people impression that the authors are either not yet true masters of the material, or they hurried up finishing the book. But they do have a lot knowledge.