eprintid: 20822 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 2326 dir: disk0/00/02/08/22 datestamp: 2016-06-02 07:55:23 lastmod: 2016-07-19 11:39:48 status_changed: 2016-06-02 07:55:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Mammen, Enno creators_name: Tsybakov, Alexandre B. title: Smooth Discrimination Analysis subjects: ddc-310 subjects: ddc-510 divisions: i-110400 keywords: Discrimination analysis, optimal rates, empirical risk, Bayes risk, sieves abstract: Discriminant analysis for two data sets in R^d with probability densities f and gcan be based on the estimation of the set G = { x : f(x) > = g(x) }. Weconsider applications where it is appropriate to assume that the regionG has a smooth boundary. In particular, this assumption makes sense if discriminant analysis is used as a data analytic tool. We discussoptimal rates for estimation of G. date: 1999 publisher: IMS Business Office id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00020822 official_url: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1017939240 schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-10a schriftenreihe_order: 44 ppn_swb: 1657259862 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-208222 language: eng bibsort: MAMMENENNOSMOOTHDISC1999 full_text_status: public publication: The Annals of Statistics volume: 27 number: 6 place_of_pub: Hayward, California pagerange: 1808-1829 issn: 0090-5364 citation: Mammen, Enno ; Tsybakov, Alexandre B. (1999) Smooth Discrimination Analysis. The Annals of Statistics, 27 (6). pp. 1808-1829. ISSN 0090-5364 document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20822/1/beitrag.44.pdf