Abstract-The behavior under additive noise of the redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT), a frame expansion that is essentially an undecimated discrete wavelet transform, is studied. Known prior results in the form of inequalities bound distortion energy in the original signal domain from additive noise in frame-expansion coefficients. In this paper, a precise relationship between RDWT-domain and original-signal-domain distortion for additive white noise in the RDWT domain is derived.Index Terms-redundant wavelet transform, frame expansion, additive noise