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Name: The Likelihood Ratio Test
ID: m11234
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
Keywords: a priori probability, Bayes, Bayes' cost, Bayes' decision criterion, cost, decision criterion, decision region, likelihood ratio, sufficient statistic
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)
Version: 1.6 (history)
Created: May 21, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5
Revised: Aug 20, 2003 5:46 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.6 Aug 20, 2003 5:46 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
trying resubmit again
Version: 1.3 Jul 21, 2003 3:56 pm GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Fixed some subscripts and added bvars to the pdf's; added a missing function and fixed a few typos
Version: 1.2 Jun 11, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
added some cnxns and some probability density functions ^_^
Version: 1.1 Jun 10, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
First version.

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