Bayes risk

cosmos 10th April 2019 at 10:58am
Risk

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~yw562/teaching/598/lec02.pdf

The minimum Risk achievable by a predictor. The corresponding predictor is the Bayes estimator, which is always deterministic.

Compare with Minimax risk. It follows from the Min-max inequality, that Minimax risk ≥ worst-case Bayes risk