Notes on Poisson distribution-based minimum error thresholding

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 425-431

  Fan, Jiulun ^a  

^a XI AN UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood principle; Minimum error thresholding; Poisson distribution; Relative entropy

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE; MINIMUM ERROR THRESHOLDING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ENTROPY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032042804     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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