Subj : Re: Naive Bayes Algorithm?
To   : comp.programming
From : CBFalconer
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 09:29 am

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> 
>> I'm doing this in perl and have a perl module from CPAN.
>> I want to understand how this algorithm works, though.
>> Does someone have a link, an explanation, psuedo-code,
>> etc.? It's been many years since I had any of this math
>> and though I can remember some of the symbols I try to
>> follow the mathematics and get myself confused.
> 
> http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html is the canonical link, I suppose.
> 
> The general idea behind Bayesian filtering is as follows:
> 
.... snip nice exposition ...

A worthwhile posting.

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