naive Bayes

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Summary

Naive Bayes is a modeling assumption used in classification, where we assume the observed data are conditionally independent given their class assignments. Despite its name, the standard naive Bayes model does not use Bayesian inference, but rather, a maximum likelihood estimation.

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Coursera: Machine Learning
An online machine learning course aimed at advanced undergraduates.
Author: Pedro Domingos
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Stanford's Machine Learning lecture notes
Lecture notes for Stanford's machine learning course, aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Author: Andrew Y. Ng
The Elements of Statistical Learning
A graudate-level statistical learning textbook with a focus on frequentist methods.
Authors: Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jerome Friedman
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
A textbook for a graudate machine learning course.
Author: David Barber

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