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The veto effect caused by contradicting experts outputting zero probability estimates leads to fusion strategies performing sub optimally. This can be resolved using Moderation. The Moderation formula is derived for the k-NN classifier using a bayesian prior. The merits of moderation are examined on real data sets.
Amidst the conflicting evidence of superiority of one over the other, we investigate the Sum and majority Vote combining rules for the two class case at a single point. We show analytically that, for Gaussian estimation error distributions, Sum always outperforms Vote, whereas for heavy tail distributions Vote may outperform Sum.