• 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