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Tr ue Bayes boundary
Estimated Bayes bounday
P ( x j )
f ( x i )
f ( x j )
P ( x i )
x b
x *
b
Figure 7.2 Error regions associated with approximating the a posteriori probability.
same a posteriori probability for classes i and j , that is,
P ( x | i) = P ( x | j)
(7.6)
f i ( x b ) = f j ( x b )
(7.7)
Tumer and Ghosh [34] proved that classification error is proportional to the
boundary error b
x b
x . According to Equation 7.6,
=
f i ( x + b) = f j ( x + b)
(7.8)
Tumer and Ghosh [34, 35] showed that the output of any Bayes classifier can
be decomposed into the true Bayes output plus error, that is,
f c ( x ) = P ( x | c) + β c + η c ( x )
(7.9)
where β c and η c are the bias and variance of the hypothesis.
According to Equation 7.9, Equation 7.8 can be rewritten as
P ( x + b | i) + β i + η i ( x b ) = P ( x + b | j) + β j + η j ( x b )
(7.10)
Equation 7.10 can be further approximated by Taylor theorem, that is,
P ( x | i) + b × P ( x | i) + β i + η i ( x b ) P ( x | j) + b × P ( x | j) + β j + η j ( x b )
(7.11)
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