THE RICE DISTRIBUTION

RICE, S. O.

Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume XXIII, Number 3, January 1944. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine and previous owner's signature to front wrapper. Other wise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 282-332. [Entire issue: Pp. 207-336.].

First printings of this seminal paper which constitute the beginning of the research with was to be known as Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. it 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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