Lower bound on the error probability for families with bounded likelihood ratios
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- by Andrew L. Rukhin
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 119 (1993), 1307-1314
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1993-1166361-X
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Abstract:
In the classification problem a new sharp lower bound for the error probability is derived. This bound depends only on the prior probabilities and on the support of pairwise likelihood ratios.References
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Bibliographic Information
- © Copyright 1993 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 119 (1993), 1307-1314
- MSC: Primary 62C05; Secondary 62F11, 62F15, 62F35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1993-1166361-X
- MathSciNet review: 1166361