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Estimation is the process of inferring the value of an unknown given quantity of interest from noisy, direct or indirect, observations of such a quantity. Due to its great practical relevance, estimation has a long history and an enormous variety of applications in all fields of engineering and science. A certainly incomplete list of possible application domains of estimation includes the following: statistics (Lehmann and Casella 1998; Bard 1974; Wertz 1978; Ghosh et al. 1997; Koch 1999; Tsybakov 2009), telecommunication systems (Snyder 1968; Van Trees 1971; Sage and Melsa 1971; Schonhoff and Giordano 2006), signal and image processing (Kay 1993; Itakura 1971; Wakita 1973; Poor 1994; Elliott et al. 2008; Barkat 2005; Levy 2008; Najim 2008; Tuncer and Friedlander 2009; Woods and Radewan 1977; Biemond et al. 1983; Kim and Woods 1998), aerospace engineering (McGee and Schmidt 1985), tracking (Farina and Studer 1985, 1986; Blackman and Popoli 1999; Bar-Shalom et al. 2001, 2013; Bar-Shalom...

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