In this paper, we consider chaotic sequences as an alternative to other sequences in the literature for the design of radar waveforms in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. For this aim we here adopt a statistical approach; by considering the codes defining the transmitted waveform as realizations of a random variable we show that a suitable distribution of the random variable can give good codes. As an example we show how the chaotic skew tent map allows to generate deterministic

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... having the desired statistical properties and thus makes it possible to obtain a good ambiguity function. These results are confirmed by simulations and compared to those using Gold codes and optimized codes.