Collaboration in distributed hypothesis testing with quantized prior probabilities

Data Compression Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 303-312

  Rhim, Joong Bum ^a   Varshney, Lav R ^b   Goyal, Vivek K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BINARY DECISION; BINARY HYPOTHESIS TESTING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCAL DECISIONS; MAJORITY RULE; PRIOR PROBABILITY; QUANTIZERS; SINGLE-AGENT;

FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 79955707787     PISSN: 10680314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCC.2011.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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