THE RICE DISTRIBUTION

RICE, S. O.

Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise (+) Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise (Concluded) (+) Statistical Properties of a Sine Wave Plus Random Noise.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944, 1945 & 1948. 8vo. 3 issues of "The Bell System Technical Journal" offered. 1944, July, Vol. XXIII, No. 3; 1945, January, Vol. XXIV, No. 1; 1948, January, Vol. XXVII, No. 1. All in the original printed blue wrappers. Some wear and sunning to spine, otherwise fine and clean copies. Pp. 282-332; 46-156; 109-157.

First printings of all three papers that together describe the Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. The present series of 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.

"In 1944 and 1945, S. O. Rice published a monumental study of noise, generally regarded to be the single most useful source of information about Gaussian noise." (Millman, A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 41).

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