Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses Python code samples and screenshots to explain naive Bayes classification, a machine learning technique used to predict the class of an item based on two ...

The Naive Bayes (NB) algorithm is a classification method based on Bayes’ theorem [6] with the assumption that all features are independent of each other. Bayes’ theorem is represented by the ...

Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century clergyman, is not well known outside the realms of academia but his name is attached to a theorem with important applications in the modern world.