Minimum mean Bayes risk error quantization of prior probabilities

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3445-3448

  Varshney, Kush R ^a   Varshney, Lav R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes risk error; Bayesian hypothesis testing; Categorization; Quantization; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; FAULT DETECTION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

BAYES RISK ERROR; BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS TESTING; CATEGORIZATION; QUANTIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 51449117290     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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