The Probability Distribution of Conditional Classification Error

Authors:
J. Kittler;P. A. Devijver
Affiliations:
Image Analysis Group, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, England.;Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium.
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Year:
1980

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Abstract

The probability distribution of the error incurred by a classification system on a given data set is derived. It is shown that the distribution is mixed binomial. A method for calculating the mixed binomial distribution recursively is proposed.