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Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide Leverage popular machine learning algorithms and techniques and implement them in Scala

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345070
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Md. Rezaul Karim Md. Rezaul Karim
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Preface 1. Introduction to Machine Learning with Scala 2. Scala for Regression Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Scala for Learning Classification 4. Scala for Tree-Based Ensemble Techniques 5. Scala for Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering 6. Scala for Recommender System 7. Introduction to Deep Learning with Scala 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

NB for churn prediction

The NB classifier is based on Bayes' theorem, with the following assumptions:

  • Independence between every pair of features
  • Feature values are non-negative, such as counts

For example, if cancer is related to age, this can be used to assess the probability that a patient might have cancer. Bayes' theorem is stated mathematically as follows:

In the preceding equation, A and B are events with P (B) ≠ 0. The other terms can be described as follows:

  • P (A | B) is called the posterior or the conditional probability of observing event A, given that B is true
  • P (B| A) is the likelihood of event B given that A is true
  • P(A) is the prior and P(B) is the prior probability, also called marginal likelihood or marginal probability

Gaussian NB is a generalized version of NB that's used for classification, which is based on the binomial distribution...

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