Classification on convex sets in the presence of missing covariates

arXiv1805.00450MaRDI QIDQ6301039FDOQ6301039

Authors: Levon Demirdjian, Majid Mojirsheibani 

Publication date: 1 May 2018

Abstract: A number of results related to statistical classification on convex sets are presented. In particular, the focus is on the case where some of the covariates in the data and observation being classified can be missing. The form of the optimal classifier is derived when the class-conditional densities are uniform over convex regions. In practice, the underlying convex sets are often unknown and must be estimated with a set of data. In this case, the convex hull of a set of points is shown to be a consistent estimator of the underlying convex set. The problem of estimation is further complicated since the number of points in each convex hull is itself a random variable. The corresponding plug-in version of the optimal classifier is derived and shown to be Bayes consistent.

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