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LOGDENS
V = LOGDENS(W)
V = W*LOGDENS
Input | |
W | Density based trained classifier |
Output | |
V | Log-density based trained classifier |
Density based classifiers suffer from a low numeric accuracy in the tails of the distributions. Especially for overtrained or high dimensional classifiers this may cause zero-density estimates for many test samples, resulting in a bad performance. This can be avoided by computing log-densities offered by this routine. This works for all classifiers based on normal distributions (e.g. LDC, QDC, MOGC) and Parzen estimates (PARZENC, PARZENDC). The computation of log-densities is , in order to be
effective, | combined with a normalisation, resulting in posterior |
distributions. | As a consequence, the possibility to output densities is |
lost. |
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