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Test Driven Machine Learning
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Test Driven Machine Learning

by Justin Bozonier
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
4h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. You're So Naïve, Bayes

We've all seen examples of using Naïve Bayes classifiers in a way of classifying text. The applications include spam detection, sentiment analysis, and more. In this chapter, we're going to take a road that is less traveled. We will build a Naïve Bayes classifier that can take in continuous inputs and classify them. Specifically, we'll build a Gaussian Naïve Bayes classifier to classify which state a person is from, which will be based on the person's height, weight, and BMI.

This chapter will work a bit differently from the previous ones. Here, we'll develop an N-class Gaussian Naïve Bayes classifier to fit our use case (the data at hand). In the next chapter, we'll pull in some of this data to train with, and ...

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