# Bayesian Decision Boundary Laplacian and Gaussian Distribution

Class 1 data samples follow a zero-mean Laplacian distribution; class 2 data samples follow a Gaussian distribution, as shown below:

\begin{align*} p(x|\omega_1) &= \dfrac{1}{2b}e^{-|x|/b} = \begin{cases} \dfrac{1}{2b}e^{-x/b} &\text{if x\geq 0}\\ \dfrac{1}{2b}e^{x/b} &\text{if x < 0} \end{cases}\\ p(x|\omega_2) &= \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma_2}\text{exp}\left[\dfrac{-1}{2}\left(\dfrac{x-\mu_2}{\sigma_2}\right)^2\right] \end{align*}

$p(x|\omega_1)$ parameter

b =

0.0652
0.0574

$p(x|\omega_2)$ parameters

mu =

0.4323
0.3808

variance =

0.0187
0.0145

I need to calculate the Bayesian decision boundary based on the information above.

So far I know the value of the parameters for both PDFs. I think I am suppose to get the discrimant function for both PDFs and set it equal to each other.

\begin{align*} g_i(x) &= \log{p(x|\omega_i)} + \log{P(\omega_i)}\\ g_1(x) &= g_2(x) \end{align*}

This is close to Combination of two Gaussians

but in this case, I have two different distributions.

• The Laplacian distribution in your statement has only one parameter, so it's not clear what $b$ and $\mu$ mean. Also, you may need to be more clear what you mean by decision boundary. – conjectures Mar 27 '17 at 15:09
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• class 1 is a zero mean, you don't see the mu in the function.See the PDF of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_distribution – Pete Mar 27 '17 at 15:17