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Practical Data Analysis Cookbook
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Practical Data Analysis Cookbook

by Tomasz Drabas
April 2016
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
8h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Classifying with Naïve Bayes

The Naïve Bayes classifier is one of the simplest classification techniques. It uses Bayes' Theorem of conditional probability of an event happening given that some other event occurs. The Naïve Bayes classifier leverages the very familiar formula:

P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B)

In other words, we want to calculate the probability of the outbound call resulting in a credit application (A) given the various characteristics of the call and caller (B). This is equivalent to the ratio of the product of the observed frequency of applying for credit: the P(A), and the frequency of such characteristics of the call and caller occurring for those who had taken the offer in the past: the P(B|A), to the frequency of such a call ...

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