Is Bayes' Rule Truly the Best?

Optimality of Always Predicting the Most Likely Outcome

Example of Turning Conditional Distributions Around

Example

Another source for more formal definition and Proof of the optimality of the Bayes classifier

http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~jianzhan/STAT598Y/NOTES/slt01.pdf --Yuanl 14:09, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


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