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Nakagami distribution has proven useful for modeling multipath faded envelo
pe in wireless channels. The shape parameter of the Nakagami distribution,
known as the m parameter, can he estimated in different ways. In this contr
ibution, the performance of the inverse normalized variance, Tolparev-Polya
kov, and the Lorenz estimators have been compared through Monte Carlo simul
ation, and it has been observed that the inverse normalized variance estima
tor is superior to the others over a broad range of m values.