AppliedMultiple choice
For a random-walk level observed with noise, what does the Kalman filter’s estimate converge to in steady state?
- AA simple moving average of the last few observations
- BAn EWMA whose weight is set by the noise ratio
- CThe latest observation, ignoring all history
- DThe sample mean of all observations so far
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