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Misclassification risk (R(h))

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The misclassification risk of a classifier is its expected misclassification loss,
R(h)=P(h(X)=Y)=Eℓ0−1​(h,(X,Y)).
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Misclassification risk
On labelled examples Z1​,…,Zn​, the empirical misclassification risk is
R(h)=n1​∑i=1n​ℓ0−1​(h,Zi​).
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An empirical risk minimizer chooses a classifier attaining the smallest value over its hypothesis class.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / ii / Paper 1 / 31J / b / Solution
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