Bayesian Decision Theory ECE 471/571 – Lecture 2 Bayesian Decision Theory
Pattern Classification Statistical Approach Non-Statistical Approach Supervised Unsupervised Decision-tree Basic concepts: Baysian decision rule (MPP, LR, Discri.) Basic concepts: Distance Agglomerative method Syntactic approach Parameter estimate (ML, BL) k-means Non-Parametric learning (kNN) Winner-takes-all LDF (Perceptron) Kohonen maps NN (BP) Mean-shift Support Vector Machine Deep Learning (DL) Dimensionality Reduction FLD, PCA Performance Evaluation ROC curve (TP, TN, FN, FP) cross validation Stochastic Methods local opt (GD) global opt (SA, GA) Classifier Fusion majority voting NB, BKS
Bayes’ formula (Bayes’ rule) From domain knowledge a-priori probability (prior probability) Conditional probability density (pdf – probability density function) (likelihood) a-posteriori probability (posterior probability) normalization constant (evidence)
pdf examples Gaussian distribution Uniform distribution Bell curve Normal distribution Uniform distribution Rayleigh distribution
Bayes decision rule x Maximum a-posteriori Probability (MAP): Stock market x Maximum a-posteriori Probability (MAP):
Conditional probability of error
Decision regions The effect of any decision rule is to partition the feature space into c decision regions
Overall probability of error Or unconditional risk, unconditional probability of error 8
The conditional risk Given x, the conditional risk of taking action ai is: lij is the loss when decide x belongs to class i while it should be j lij
Likelihood ratio - two category classification
Zero-One loss
Recap Bayes decision rule maximum a-posteriori probability Conditional risk Likelihood ratio Decision regions How to calculate the overall probability of error
Recap Maximum a-posteriori Probability Likelihood ratio Overall probability of error