Preface; I. Introduction; II. Elements of Hypothesis Testing; III. Signal Detection in Discrete Time; IV. Elements of Parameter Estimation;
V. Elements of Signal Estimation; VI. Signal Detection in Continuous Time; VII. Signal Estimation in Continuous Time; References; Index

Essential background reading for engineers and scientists working in such fields as communications, control, signal, and image processing, radar and sonar, radio astronomy, seismology, remote sensing, and instrumentation. The book can be used as a textbook for a single course, as well as a combination of an introductory and an advanced course, or even for two separate courses, one in signal detection, the other in estimation.