On the optimality of Naïve Bayes with dependent binary features

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 830-837

  Kuncheva, Ludmila I ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependent binary features; Na ve Bayes classifier (NB); Optimality of NB; Statistical pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEPENDENT BINARY FEATURES; OPTIMALITY OF NB; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33644870376     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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