[R] Naive Bayes Classifier

[Christian Hennig]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> As I understand Naive Bayes it is essentially a finite mixture model for
> multivariate categorical distributions where the variables are independent in
> each component of the mixture. That is, I believe it to be a synonym Latent
> Class analysis. I believe the Frayley/Raftery package mclust may include this
> sort of model, and possibly other packages. Certainly these models may be
> expressed in the language of graphical models. Whether or not this would be
> useful for estimation purposes I am uncertain.
> 
> Murray Jorgensen

mclust (R-version) only fits Gaussian mixtures with and without Poisson noise.

Christian

	

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