The asymptotic distribution of an estimator of the Bayes error rate

  • Authors:
  • Norman Matloff;Ronald Pruitt

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Statistics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA;Division of Statistics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

The asymptotic distribution of a class of estimators of the Bayes error rate in pattern recognition problems is derived. The class consists of estimators of the risk-averaging type, applied to parametric models such as the logistic function.