Python Data Science Essentials - Third Edition
by Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron, Pietro Marinelli, Matteo Malosetti
Naive Bayes
Naive Bayes is a very common classifier used for probabilistic binary and multiclass classification. Given the feature vector, it leverages the Bayes rule to predict the probability of each class. It's often applied to text classification since it's very effective with large and fat data (that is a data set with many features), characterized by a consistent a priori probability, handling effectively the curse of dimensionality issue.
There are three kinds of Naive Bayes classifiers; each of them has strong assumptions (hypotheses) about the features. If you're dealing with real/continuous data, the Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier assumes that features are generated from a Gaussian process (that is, they are normally distributed). ...
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