Richard Pitre
Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC 20375-5350
The equal-likelihood rationale [R. Pitre and N. R. Davis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (to be published)] for the selection of probability models has been extended and strengthened. The method is shown to be optimally robust, testable, and correctable. Nonlinear parameter estimation and filtering equations are developed based on this formalism and its application to modeling active sonar in a random waveguide is formulated. [Work sponsored by ONR.]