Harry L. Van Trees (1968), John Wiley & Sons (book) — DOI-10.1002/0471221082
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Registered on 2026-09-29 at the owner’s request, because the owner’s prior-art novelty map (a private working
document on concepts as projectors, the linear representation hypothesis and their neighbours) cites it: row 14 must-cite: detection probability Q(γ/σ) and the CRLB machinery.
It is seeded from metadata and published descriptions and has not been read here.
Only the year of first publication is known; published: uses 1 January.
Identification notes: Part I (1968) is the volume the map means. The DOI is Wiley’s 2001 paperback reissue of the 1968 text (Crossref issued 2001-09-27); first publication 1968. A 2nd edition (Van Trees, Bell & Tian 2013) exists — not registered.
A close reading was attempted on 2026-09-29. No legitimate full text could be reached: The book is in copyright (Wiley 1968; DOI 10.1002/0471221082 is the 2001 reissue). OpenAlex marks it closed with no repository copy, and Semantic Scholar does not resolve the DOI. An Internet Archive advanced search found the 1968 Part I only as controlled-lending or print-disabled scans (identifiers detectionestimat0000unse, in the “inlibrary” lending collection, and detectionestimat0001unse, “printdisabled”). These are excluded by the instructions and were not borrowed. The search also returned a 2002 Part IV scan (lending, the wrong volume). The converted-text cache holds no copy. No author or publisher open copy was found. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.
A reachable stand-in, 2026-09-30. For the detection half of the map’s row 14, Peterson & Birdsall’s 1953 report (LIT-364) is a first-hand substitute. In white Gaussian noise its log-likelihood ratio is equal-variance normal with detection index d = 2E/N₀, and the equal-prior error Q(√d/2) = Q(d′/2) follows in one line (NOTE-315). The report never writes that formula, so cite it as derived rather than quoted. The Cramér–Rao half has no reachable source yet: Peterson & Birdsall has no estimation theory, and Rao 1945 (LIT-349) and Cramér 1946 (LIT-311) are unreachable.