'FitPosterior' option for fitcecoc

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Yoshihiro Yamada
Yoshihiro Yamada on 25 Aug 2017
Commented: Han zid on 19 Aug 2018
I am evaluating SVM ('fitcecoc' function) by applying my data 'pm_pareto_12456'. When I set 'FitPosterior' option 'true', I encountered unexpected result described as follows: I execute prediction by using original data. when 'FitPosterior' option is false, the result is same as original classification 'class_array_12456', however, when 'FitPosterior' option is true, some elements of 'predicted_class_12456_true' are different from 'class_array_12456'. I wonder if 'FitPosterior' option could affect the prediction results?
SVM_data.mat contains variables for my evaluation and SVM_Test.m is evaluation script. P.S. my matlab version is 2017a

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Carl
Carl on 29 Aug 2017
Edited: Carl on 29 Aug 2017
Hi Yoshihiro. See the documentation here for the 'FitPosterior' option in fitcecoc:
It mentions that when that option is set to true, it translates classification scores to posterior probabilities. The model will inherently use different values for its fitting and prediction. As you observed, this may end up with different results.
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Yoshihiro Yamada
Yoshihiro Yamada on 30 Aug 2017
Edited: Yoshihiro Yamada on 30 Aug 2017
Hi Carl.
According to your advice, I should accept instability of predicted results. Therefore, I tried to change another option to avoid instability and it works well! Thank you for your advice.
Han zid
Han zid on 19 Aug 2018
Hi Yoshihiro, I get to same probelem as yours , can you please help me with the option you used to solve this problem.

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