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S. Lall
2015.01.29.01
Homework 3
0550
U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
and
and
0.1
0.2
pw =
0.3
0.2
0.2
and
0.1
0.1
0.15
px =
0.15
0.25
0.25
2. Radar
A radar has conditional probability mass functions
pnothing = 102 4 7 11 12 17 16 13 9 6 4
psomething = 102 0 0 2 6 8 10 15 15 15 13
Here X1 is the event that nothing is visible, and X2 is the event that something is visible, and
Yi is the event that the radar returns i pings (at least one ping is always returned.) Then
Prob(Yi | X1 ) = pnothing
i
Prob(Yi | X2 ) = psomething
i
Prob(X2 ) = 0.4;
(a) Find the classifier with the minimum probability of error, and the corresponding probability
of a correct classification.
Engr207b
S. Lall
2015.01.29.01
(b) Suppose we significantly prefer false positives to false negatives, and so decided to minimize
J1 + J2
where
J1 = Prob(false positive)
J2 = Prob(false negative)