In probability theory, the Rice distribution or Rician distribution is the probability distribution of the magnitude of a circular bivariate normal random variable with potentially non-zero mean. It was named after Stephen O. Rice.
Read more about Rice Distribution: Characterization, Related Distributions, Limiting Cases, Parameter Estimation (the Koay Inversion Technique)
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