A bayes empirical bayes decision rule for classification

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1137-1149

  Li, Tze Fen ^a   Yen, Tseng Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayes decision rule; Classification; Empirical Bayes decision rule; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYES DECISION RULE; BAYES EMPIRICAL BAYES (BEB); EMPIRICAL BAYES DECISION RULE; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 20344395615     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200056853     Document Type: Article

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