61.182 Informaatiotekn. ek II, spring 1997
Exercise problems
(Ch. 2, Ripley)
5. Ripley says (p. 67) that the error count, say R, has a binomial distribution with mean ME and variance ME(1-E) where E is the (unknown) probability of error and M is the size of the test set. Show that this is true.
(Ch. 3, Ripley)
6. When is the classical LDA classifier (Ch. 3.1) the same as the classifier based on Fisher's linear discriminant?