On dependence and discrimination in pattern recognition

Authors:
Toomas R. Vilmansen
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Year:
1972

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Abstract

A new measure of dependence is formulated, and some of its properties are described. The measure is applied to feature evaluation to show the relation of dependence between features and classes to discrimination between class-conditional probability distributions.