A NEW APPROACH TO THE COMPARISON OF DETECTION SYSTEMS

Abstract

The application of statistical decision theory to the problem of comparing 2 detection systems is discussed. It is shown that the optimum system is quite sensitive to the details of the noise statistics. It is concluded that if 2 systems are evaluated in the presence of the same, but not necessarily known, background statistics then the better system is that which provides a uniformly lower cost. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1960
Accession Number
AD0261709

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  • Donald M. Levy

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Science
  • Decision Theory
  • Detection
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Mathematics
  • Statistical Decision Theory
  • Statistics

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