An upper bound on the probability of misclassification in terms of Matusita's measure of affinity

DOI10.1007/BF02481018MaRDI QIDQ1055121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Binay Bhattacharya, Godfried Toussaint

Publication date 1982

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02481018

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes probability of misclassificationBhattacharyya coefficientdistribution-free upper boundinformation measuresM-hypothesis discrimination problemMatusita measure of affinitypattern classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

Cites work

• A lower bound on bayes risk in classification problems
• An axiomatic foundation for a multivariate measure of affinity among a number of distributions
• On the notion of affinity of several distributions and some of its applications
• Probability of Error, Expected Divergence, and the Affinity of Several Distributions
• Some properties of affinity and applications
• Some properties of Matusita's measure of affinity of several distributions

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• Some properties of the Hellinger transform and its application in classification problems
• Quantile-based Matusita’s overlap measure for past lifetimes

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