July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
8h 26m
English
scikit-learn implements three naive Bayes variants based on the same number of different probabilistic distributions: Bernoulli, multinomial, and Gaussian. The first one is a binary distribution, useful when a feature can be present or absent. The second one is a discrete distribution and is used whenever a feature must be represented by a whole number (for example, in natural language processing, it can be the frequency of a term), while the third is a continuous distribution characterized by its mean and variance.
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