Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments List of Operators and Notational Conventions List of Symbols List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 An Introduction to Identification Chapter 2 Measurement of Frequency Response Functions Standard Solutions Chapter 3 Frequency Response Function Measurements in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions Chapter 4 Detection, Quantification, and Qualification of Nonlinear Distortions in FRF Measurements Chapter 5 Design of Excitation Signals Chapter 6 Models of Linear Time-Invariant Systems Chapter 7 Measurement of Frequency Response Functions The Local Polynomial Approach Chapter 8 An Intuitive Introduction to Frequency Domain Identification Chapter 9 Estimation with Know Noise Model Chapter 10 Estimation with Unknown Noise Model Standard Solutions Chapter 11 Model Selection and Validation Chapter 12 Estimation with Unknown Noise Model The Local Polynomial Approach Chapter 13 Basic Choices in System Identification Chapter 14 Guidelines for the User Chapter 15 Some Linear Algebra Fundamentals Chapter 16 Some Probability and Stochastic Convergence Fundamentals Chapter 17 Properties of Least Squares Estimators with Deterministic Weighting Chapter 18 Properties of Least Squares Estimators with Stochastic Weighting Chapter 19 Identification of Semilinear Models Chapter 20 Identification of Invariants of (Over) Parameterized Models References Subject Index Author Index About the Authors