Ensembles of Classifiers

• Assume errors are independent

• Assume majority vote

• Prob. majority is wrong = area under biomial dist

• If individual area is 0.3

• Area under curve for ?11 wrong is 0.026

• Order of magnitude improvement!

Prob 0.2

0.1

Number of classifiers in error

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