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General principles

Unlike nonadaptive filters which just pass their input data through the filtering mechanism, adaptive filters also apply a system model as well. The estimate of the system is compared against the filter output to create an error signal, this error signal is then used in a cost function of some kind which indicates how well (or badly) we are doing with the current parameters of the filter.



Skip Carter 2008-08-20