When is the mode functional the Bayes classifier?
Statistics Theory
2017-05-01 v1 Statistics Theory
Abstract
In classification problems, the mode of the conditional probability distribution, i.e., the most probable category, is the Bayes classifier under zero-one or misclassification loss. Under any other cost structure, the mode fails to persist.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.08979,
title = {When is the mode functional the Bayes classifier?},
author = {Tilmann Gneiting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08979},
year = {2017}
}