Classification Procedures Based on Bayes's Formula

A. Birnbaum and A. E. Maxwell

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 1960, vol. 9, issue 3, 152-169

Abstract: In this article Dr Birnbaum and Dr Maxwell describe some methods of classification based on the classical probability formula of Bayes, and on some of its applications suggested by the theory of statistical decision functions. The classification problems considered are general, utilising no restrictive assumptions about possible distribution forms, but assuming that distributions can be estimated from large samples of data. The method is illustrated by an exploratory application to preliminary diagnostic classification, using data on 772 patients of a psychiatric hospital.

Date: 1960
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