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On The Positive Definiteness of Polarity Coincidence Correlation Coefficient Matrix
Polarity coincidence correlator (PCC), when used to estimate the covariance
matrix on an element-by-element basis, may not yield a positive semi-definite
(PSD) estimate. Devlin et al. [1], claimed that element-wise PCC is not
guaranteed to be PSD in dimensions p>3 for real signals. However, no
justification or proof was available on this issue. In this letter, it is
proved that for real signals with p<=3 and for complex signals with p<=2, a PSD
estimate is guaranteed. Counterexamples are presented for higher dimensions
which yield invalid covariance estimates.Comment: IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 15, pp. 73-76, 200