[R] Naive Bayes Classifier

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ursula Sondhauss wrote:

> I am looking for an implementation of the Naive Bayes classifier for a
> multi-class classification problem. I can not even find the Naive Bayes
> classifier for two classes, though I can not believe it is not
> available. Can anyone help me?

Hard to believe but likely true. However, as I understand this, it applies
to a (K+1)-way contingency table, with K explanatory factors and and one
response.  And the `naive Bayes' model is a particular model for that
table.  If you want a classifier, you only need the conditional
distribution of the response given the explanatory factors, and that is a
main-effects-only multiple logistic model.  Now the *estimation*
procedures may be slightly different (`naive Bayes' is not fully defined),
but if that does not matter, use multinom() in package nnet to fit this.

A book on Graphical Modelling (e.g. Whittaker or Edwards) may help
elucidate the connections.

Let me stress *as I understand this* here.

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