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ArticleJournal of vision2021

A method to integrate and classify normal distributions.

Abhranil Das, Wilson S Geisler

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Abhranil DasDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Wilson S GeislerDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Funding

PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION OF TWO DIMENSIONAL PATTERNSR01EY011747 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI GEISLER, WILSON S · 1997 to 2022
$6.4M
Visual Search and Detection in Natural ScenesR01EY024662 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI GEISLER, WILSON S · 2015 to 2022
$2.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011747NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Univariate and multivariate normal probability distributions are widely used when modeling decisions under uncertainty. Computing the performance of such models requires integrating these distributions over specific domains, which can vary widely across models. Besides some special cases where these integrals are easy to calculate, there exist no general analytical expressions, standard numerical methods, or software for these integrals. Here we present mathematical results and open-source software that provide (a) the probability in any domain of a normal in any dimensions with any parameters; (b) the probability density, cumulative distribution, and inverse cumulative distribution of any function of a normal vector; (c) the classification errors among any number of normal distributions, the Bayes-optimal discriminability index, and relation to the receiver operating characteristic (ROC); (d) dimension reduction and visualizations for such problems; and (e) tests for how reliably these methods may be used on given data. We demonstrate these tools with vision research applications of detecting occluding objects in natural scenes and detecting camouflage.

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SoftwareBayes TheoremHumansNormal DistributionProbabilityUncertainty

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PMID34468706
PMCPMC8419883

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