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Bayesian methods - Concepts

Did you ever wonder how the spam classifier in your e-mail works? How does it know that an e-mail might be spam or not? Well, one popular technique is something called Naive Bayes, and that's an example of a Bayesian method. Let's learn more about how that works. Let's discuss Bayesian methods.

We did talk about Bayes' theorem earlier in this book in the context of talking about how things like drug tests could be very misleading in their results. But you can actually apply the same Bayes' theorem to larger problems, like spam classifiers. So let's dive into how that might work, it's called a Bayesian method.

So just a refresher on Bayes' theorem -remember, the probability of A given B is equal to the overall probability ...