Properties and convergence of a posteriori probabilities in classification problems

Moshe Ben-Bassat*, Shmuel Gal

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Abstract

This report investigates the behavior of the a posteriori probabilities for classification problems in which the observations are not identically distributed. Some basic properties of the a posteriori probabilities are presented; then, it is shown that for each class the a posteriori probability converges a.s. to a random variable. Conditions are given for a.s. convergence of the a posteriori probability to 1 for the true class (and to 0 for all other classes). The results are illustrated for the case of two classes and binary observations, and finally a numerical example is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-107
Number of pages9
JournalPattern Recognition
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1977
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bayesian theory
  • Binary features
  • Pattern recognition classification
  • Posterior probabilities
  • Probability of error

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