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MediumProbabilitypr-419

Expected Zero One Loss

Problem

The optimal 0/1 classifier predicts the most likely class, so its expected loss is 1 minus the maximum posterior probability.

Given the class posteriors, return the expected zero-one loss.

Hint

The error is the mass outside the predicted class.

Test cases

case 1
in: [[0.7,0.3]]
expected: 0.30000000000000004
case 2
in: [[0.5,0.5]]
expected: 0.5
case 3
in: [[0.1,0.2,0.7]]
expected: 0.30000000000000004
Starter codePython
def expected_zero_one_loss(posteriors):
    # Your code here
    pass

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