Title :
On Dependence and Discrimination in Pattern Recognition
Author :
Vilmansen, Toomas R.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B. C., Canada.
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.
Keywords :
Costs; Error analysis; Graphics; Pattern recognition; Random number generation; Testing; Training data; Uncertainty; Discrimination information; Kolmogorov variational distance; distance measures; feature evaluation; mutual information; pattern recognition; statistical dependence;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TC.1972.5009091
