DMP Report: Summer 2006 Parametric models for similarity-based classification

Keywords: parametric, classifier, similarity-based. A parametric classifier builds class models and classifies test points as being from classes that they are most likely to belong to, given the class models. Over the summer, I worked with Professor to develop a parametric classifier that builds models based on only the similarity between samples. The parametric clas-sifier was compared to other traditional classifiers, including near-neighbor methods, centroid-based classi-fiers, and support vector machines.