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Pattern ClassificationAll materials in these slides were taken from Pattern Classification (2nd ed) by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork, John Wiley Sons, 2000 with the permission of the authors and the publisher Chapter 2 (part 3)Bayesian Decision Theory (Sections 2-6,2-9) Discriminant Functions for the Normal Density Bayes Decision Theory – Discrete Features Discriminant Functions for the Normal Density We saw that the minimum error-rate classification can be achieved by the discriminant function gi(x) = ln P(x | ?i) + ln P(?i) Case of multivariate normal Case ?i = ?2.I