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Statistics for Machine Learning

You're reading from   Statistics for Machine Learning Techniques for exploring supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models with Python and R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295758
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pratap Dangeti Pratap Dangeti
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Preface 1. Journey from Statistics to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Parallelism of Statistics and Machine Learning 3. Logistic Regression Versus Random Forest 4. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models 5. K-Nearest Neighbors and Naive Bayes 6. Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks 7. Recommendation Engines 8. Unsupervised Learning 9. Reinforcement Learning

Naive Bayes


Bayes algorithm concept is quite old and exists from the 18th century since Thomas Bayes. Thomas developed the foundational mathematical principles for determining the probability of unknown events from the known events. For example, if all apples are red in color and average diameter would be about 4 inches then, if at random one fruit is selected from the basket with red color and diameter of 3.7 inch, what is the probability that the particular fruit would be an apple? Naive term does assume independence of particular features in a class with respect to others. In this case, there would be no dependency between color and diameter. This independence assumption makes the Naive Bayes classifier most effective in terms of computational ease for particular tasks such as email classification based on words in which high dimensions of vocab do exist, even after assuming independence between features. Naive Bayes classifier performs surprisingly really well in practical applications...

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