12. Exercises, Tutorials and Answers

Chapter 5: The Maximum Likelihood Classifier

• Tutorial - ILWIS classification instructions
  
  
• Question: The Minimum Distance Classifier is a special case of the Maximum Likelihood Classifier. What are these conditions that make the Minimum Distance Classifier a special case of the Maximum Likelihood Classifier?
  Answer: There must be zero covariance and the variances are all equal, so that the covariance arrays become circles or spheres of equal diameter.