// @(#)root/tmva $Id: TMVA_MisClassificationError.cxx,v 1.2 2006/05/08 15:39:03 brun Exp $
// Author: Andreas Hoecker, Helge Voss, Kai Voss 

/**********************************************************************************
 * Project: TMVA - a Root-integrated toolkit for multivariate data analysis       *
 * Package: TMVA                                                                  *
 * Class  : TMVA_MisClassificationError                                           *
 *                                                                                *
 * Description: Implementation of the MisClassificationError as separation        *
 *              criterion:   1-max(p, 1-p) as 
 *                                                                                *
 *                                                                                *
 * Authors (alphabetical):                                                        *
 *      Andreas Hoecker <Andreas.Hocker@cern.ch> - CERN, Switzerland              *
 *      Xavier Prudent  <prudent@lapp.in2p3.fr>  - LAPP, France                   *
 *      Helge Voss      <Helge.Voss@cern.ch>     - MPI-KP Heidelberg, Germany     *
 *      Kai Voss        <Kai.Voss@cern.ch>       - U. of Victoria, Canada         *
 *                                                                                *
 * Copyright (c) 2005:                                                            *
 *      CERN, Switzerland,                                                        * 
 *      U. of Victoria, Canada,                                                   * 
 *      Heidelberg U., Germany,                                                   * 
 *      LAPP, Annecy, France                                                      *
 *                                                                                *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without             *
 * modification, are permitted according to the terms listed in LICENSE           *
 * (http://mva.sourceforge.net/license.txt)                                       *
 *                                                                                *
 **********************************************************************************/

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// Implementation of the MisClassificationError as separation criterion 
//                                                                      
//_______________________________________________________________________


#include "TMVA_MisClassificationError.h"

ClassImp(TMVA_MisClassificationError)

//_______________________________________________________________________
 Double_t  TMVA_MisClassificationError::GetSeparationIndex( const Double_t &s, const Double_t &b )
{
  if ( s+b <= 0) return 0;
  Double_t p = s/(s+b);
  if (p < 1-p) return 1-p;
  else         return p;
  //return std::max(p, 1-p); 
}