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Name: Criteria in Hypothesis Testing
ID: m11228
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: a priori, Bayes, Bayes', criteria, decision region, detection, detection probability, error probability, false-alarm probability, hypothesis testing, Lagrange multiplier, likelihood ratio, maximum probability correct, minimum error probability, miss probability, monotonicity, Neyman-Pearson, Neyman-Pearson criterion, optimization, probability of error, sufficient statistic, tradeoff
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman@astro.berkeley.edu), Kevin Duh (kevinduh@rice.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com), Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), Eileen Krause (erkrause@rice.edu), Mariyah Poonawala (mariyah@rice.edu), Matthew Jeanes (mjeanes@rice.edu), Kyle Clarkson (kclarks@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: May 22, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Aug 11, 2003 3:27 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m11228_1.4.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.4 Aug 11, 2003 3:27 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
fixed typos, changed pdf markup, added cnxn, changed double subscript markup
Version: 1.3 Jul 16, 2003 3:00 pm GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Fixed a connexion.
Version: 1.2 Jun 26, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Added some normal distribution stuff.
Version: 1.1 Jun 10, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
First version.

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