My experience is they are not between [-1 1]. Did you figure out more about how to get probabilities out of "f" ?
"Sara" wrote in message <imt624$1mh$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi!
> Anybody knows if in the private function svmdecision, the distances (f) are numbers between [-1, 1]?
>
> It's because i'm working with images and i applied the svm method. For all the images i have, f are numbers between -1 and 1. My interpretation is, for example, if f is very close to 1 there are more probability of the image belongs to the class 1 than the f is not so close to 1.
> Is that right?
>
> Thanks
> Sara![]()
"Sara" wrote in message <imt624$1mh$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi!
> Anybody knows if in the private function svmdecision, the distances (f) are numbers between [-1, 1]?
>
> It's because i'm working with images and i applied the svm method. For all the images i have, f are numbers between -1 and 1. My interpretation is, for example, if f is very close to 1 there are more probability of the image belongs to the class 1 than the f is not so close to 1.
> Is that right?
>
> Thanks
> Sara