DocumentCode
959856
Title
On Dependence and Discrimination in Pattern Recognition
Author
Vilmansen, Toomas R.
Author_Institution
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B. C., Canada.
Issue
9
fYear
1972
Firstpage
1029
Lastpage
1031
Abstract
A new measure of dependence is formulated, and some of its properties are described. The measure is applied to feature evaluation to show the relation of dependence between features and classes to discrimination between class-conditional probability distributions.
Keywords
Costs; Error analysis; Graphics; Pattern recognition; Random number generation; Testing; Training data; Uncertainty; Discrimination information; Kolmogorov variational distance; distance measures; feature evaluation; mutual information; pattern recognition; statistical dependence;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TC.1972.5009091
Filename
5009091
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