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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 3 28K b Solution by
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Condition on the observed value . If a classifier reports class zero, its conditional probability of error is ; if it reports class one, the conditional error is . Therefore the smaller conditional error is attained by class one exactly whenand by class zero exactly when the reverse strict inequality holds. Integrating these pointwise conditional errors proves that is a Bayes classifier.
The only possible nonuniqueness lies on the tie setBecause the two Gaussian class distributions are distinct, is not identically zero. It is a nonzero polynomial of degree at most two, so its zero set has Lebesgue measure zero. Both Gaussian laws have densities with respect to Lebesgue measure, hence assign probability zero to . Every Bayes rule must therefore agree with almost surely. This proves the uniqueness of a Bayes classifier up to the standard null-set equivalence of decision rules.
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