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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 47 2 b ii Solution by
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Apply the minimum-integral decision region principle to . The optimal Bayes classifier chooses class one when , and class two for the reverse inequality. Ties can be assigned either way. An everywhere valid discriminant score isWhere both weighted densities are positive one may equivalently use and threshold zero. This chooses the largest posterior class probability, because both posterior probabilities have the same positive mixture-density denominator.
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