THE RICE DISTRIBUTION

RICE, S. O.

Statistical Properties of a Sine Wave Plus Random Noise.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1948. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume XXVII, Number 1, 1948. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 109-157. [Entire issue: Pp. 1-181.].

First printings of Rice's final paper (the last out of three) on the Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. The present papers is considered a classic within the field of statistics and probability theory.

The Rice distribution is an extension of the Rayleigh distribution that adds a coherent signal to the backscattered signal that underlies the Rayleigh distribution.
The model is named after Stephen O. Rice who worked at Bell Labs for nearly forty years. His most famous and influential publication is the present article; in 1983 he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

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