Open AccessON CORRELATIONS, DISTANCES AND ERROR RATES 1
Author(s) -
Dorans Neil J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2330-8516.1985.tb00117.x
Subject(s) - estimator , statistics , mathematics , word error rate , population , econometrics , computer science , artificial intelligence , demography , sociology
A unified framework for classification and prediction problems is presented. Well known and lesser known relationships among correlations, distances and error rates are established. A new population distance, the shrunken generalized distance, and a new estimator of the actual error rate are introduced.