The effect of model misspecification on semi-supervised classification

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2093-2103

  Yang, Ting ^a   Priebe, Carey E ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes plug in classifier.; finite mixture model; Semi supervised classification

Indexed keywords

BAYES PLUG-IN CLASSIFIER.; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; ESTIMATION METHODS; FINITE MIXTURE MODELS; MISSPECIFICATION; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PLUG-INS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING DATA;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 80051959151     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.45     Document Type: Article

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