About the Authors
- Tatyana Sharpee
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sharpee@salk.edu
Affiliation Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical Biology and Laboratory of Computational Neurobiology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- William Bialek
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Affiliation Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, The Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: WB TS. Other: Derived the general equation for optimal decision boundaries: WB TS. Found and analyzed specific solutions for several example probability distributions: WB TS.