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Name: The Bayes Risk Criterion in Hypothesis Testing
ID: m11533
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: likelihood ratio, likelihood ratio test, LRT, threshold
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)
Authors: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Maintainers: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com), Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman@astro.berkeley.edu)
Version: 1.6 (history)
Created: Jul 28, 2003 2:44 pm GMT-5
Revised: May 25, 2004 3:45 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.6 May 25, 2004 3:45 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Fixed double summations bound variables.
Version: 1.5 May 11, 2004 12:17 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Fixed one link.
Version: 1.4 Aug 7, 2003 2:55 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Changed some MathML and presentation for Clay.
Version: 1.3 Jul 31, 2003 1:36 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Added line break on equal sign (equations) and fixed some presentation for Clay.
Version: 1.2 Jul 30, 2003 2:35 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Fixed one connexion.
Version: 1.1 Jul 30, 2003 11:27 am GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
First Version.

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