Machine Learning

Chapter 6

Bayesian Concept Learning

OBJECTIVE OF THE CHAPTER:

Principles of probability for classification are an important area of machine learning algorithms. In our practical life, our decisions are affected by our prior knowledge or belief about an event. Thus, an event that is otherwise very unlikely to occur may be considered by us seriously to occur in certain situations if we know that in the past, the event had certainly occurred when other events were observed. The same concept is applied in machine learning using Bayes’ theorem and the related algorithms discussed in this chapter. The concepts of probabilities discussed in the previous chapters are used extensively in this chapter.

6.1 INTRODUCTION

In the last chapter, we discussed ...