Title
Effects of Kurtosis for the Error Rate Estimators Using Resampling Methods in Two Class Discrimination
Abstract
In preceding studies, error rate estimators have been compared under various conditions and in most cases the population distribution was assumed to be normal. Effects of non-normality of the population have therefore not been studied sufficiently. In this study, we focused on kurtosis as a measure of non-normality and examined the effects of kurtosis for error rate estimators, especially resampling-based estimators. Our simulation results in two-class discrimination using a linear discriminant function suggest that it is necessary to consider non-normality of the population in comparison of estimators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04592-9_43
KES (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
two-class discrimination,linear discriminant function,resampling methods,class discrimination,resampling-based estimator,error rate estimator,simulation result,population distribution,various condition,error rate,bias,bootstrap,robustness,standard deviation
Population,Pattern recognition,Word error rate,Bootstrapping (statistics),Artificial intelligence,Linear discriminant analysis,Statistics,Standard deviation,Resampling,Mathematics,Kurtosis,Estimator
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5712
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kozo Yamada100.34
Hirohito Sakurai200.68
Hideyuki Imai310325.08
Yoshiharu Sato4134.06