Multilevel minimax hypothesis testing

IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-112

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

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

Author keywords

Bayes risk error; categorization; hypothesis testing; quantization; signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BAYES RISK; BAYES RISK ERROR; BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS; CATEGORIZATION; ERROR CRITERION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; MINIMAX; PARTIAL INFORMATION; PRIOR PROBABILITY; QUANTIZATION;

ERROR DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 80051733583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSP.2011.5967633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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