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rocpfa

Receiver operating characteristic curves by false-alarm probability

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Syntax

[Pd,SNR] = rocpfa(Pfa)
[Pd,SNR] = rocpfa(Pfa,Name=Value)
rocpfa(...)

Description

[Pd,SNR] = rocpfa(Pfa) returns the single-pulse detection probabilities, Pd, and required SNR values, SNR, for the false-alarm probabilities in the row or column vector Pfa. By default, for each false-alarm probability, the detection probabilities are computed for 101 equally spaced SNR values between 0 and 20 dB. The ROC curve is constructed assuming a single pulse in coherent receiver with a nonfluctuating target.

[Pd,SNR] = rocpfa(Pfa,Name=Value) returns detection probabilities and SNR values with additional options specified by one or more name-value arguments.

rocpfa(...) plots the ROC curves.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Plot ROC curves for false-alarm probabilities of 1e-8, 1e-6, and 1e-3, assuming no pulse integration.

Pfa = [1e-8 1e-6 1e-3];
rocpfa(Pfa,SignalType="NonfluctuatingCoherent")

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Nonfluctuating Coherent Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves, xlabel SNR (dB), ylabel P indexOf d baseline P_d contains 6 objects of type line, text.

Open Live Script

Examine the effect of SNR on the probability of detection for a detector using noncoherent integration with a false-alarm probability of 1e-4. Assume the target has a nonfluctuating RCS and that you are integrating over 5 pulses.

[Pd,SNR] = rocpfa(1e-4,...
    'SignalType','NonfluctuatingNoncoherent',...
    'NumPulses',5);
figure;
plot(SNR,Pd); xlabel('SNR (dB)');
ylabel('Probability of Detection'); grid on;
title('Nonfluctuating Noncoherent Detector (5 Pulses)');

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Nonfluctuating Noncoherent Detector (5 Pulses), xlabel SNR (dB), ylabel Probability of Detection contains an object of type line.

Input Arguments

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False-alarm probabilities, specified as a row or column vector.

Example: [1e-8 1e-6 1e-3]

Data Types: double

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Example: MaxSNR=15,NumPoints=64,NumPulses=10

Before R2021a, use commas to separate each name and value, and enclose Name in quotes.

Example: 'MaxSNR',15,'NumPoints',64,'NumPulses',10

Maximum SNR to include in the ROC calculation, specified as a positive scalar.

Data Types: double

Minimum SNR to include in the ROC calculation, specified as a positive scalar.

Data Types: double

Number of SNR values to use when calculating the ROC curves, specified as a positive integer. The actual values are equally spaced between MinSNR and MaxSNR.

Data Types: double

Number of pulses to integrate when calculating the ROC curves, specified as a positive integer. A value of 1 indicates no pulse integration.

Data Types: double

This property specifies the type of received signal or, equivalently, the probability density functions (PDF) used to compute the ROC. Valid values are: "Real", "NonfluctuatingCoherent", "NonfluctuatingNoncoherent", "Swerling1", "Swerling2", "Swerling3", and "Swerling4". Values are not case sensitive.

The "NonfluctuatingCoherent" signal type assumes that the noise in the received signal is a complex-valued, Gaussian random variable. This variable has independent zero-mean real and imaginary parts each with variance σ2/2 under the null hypothesis. In the case of a single pulse in a coherent receiver with complex white Gaussian noise, the probability of detection, PD, for a given false-alarm probability, PFA is:

PD=12erfc(erfc−1(2PFA)−χ)

where erfc and erfc-1 are the complementary error function and that function’s inverse, and χ is the SNR not expressed in decibels.

For details about the other supported signal types, see [1] .

Data Types: char | string

Output Arguments

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Detection probabilities corresponding to the false-alarm probabilities, returned as a vector. For each false-alarm probability in Pfa, Pd contains one column of detection probabilities.

Signal-to-noise ratios, returned as a column vector. By default, the SNR values are 101 equally spaced values between 0 and 20. To change the range of SNR values, use the optional MinSNR or MaxSNR input argument. To change the number of SNR values, use the optional NumPoints input argument.

References

[1] Richards, M. A. Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, pp 298–336.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2011a

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