Data mining tasks and methods: Classification: Bayesian classification

  • Authors:
  • Nir Friedman;Ronny Kohavi

  • Affiliations:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel;Senior Director of Data Mining Applications, Blue Martini Software, San Mateo, California

  • Venue:
  • Handbook of data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Bayesian classification addresses the classification problem by learning the distribution of instances given different class values. We review the basic notion of Bayesian classification, describe in some detail the naive Bayesian classifier, and briefly discuss some extensions.