Corrigendum to three papers that deal with “Anti”-Bayesian Pattern Recognition [Pattern Recognition]

In the papers [1] (Thomas and Oommen, 2013), [2] (Oommen and Thomas, 2014) and [3] (Thomas and Oommen, 2013), and their associated conference versions cited in those papers, we had introduced a new method of so-called “Anti”-Bayesian Pattern Recognition (PR) which achieved the classification using only a few (sometimes as few as two) points distant from the mean. While the PR strategy, in and of itself, is accurate, the claim that it was based on the Order Statistics (OS) of the distributions of the features is not. The PR and classification results are rather founded on the symmetric quantiles and not on the symmetric OSs. This brief paper corrects the flawed claim presented in those papers.