The Indifferent Naive Bayes Classifier

May 2003

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2003)

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Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2003)

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The Naive Bayes classifier is a simple and accurate classifier. This paper shows that assuming the Naive Bayes classifier model and applying Bayesian model averaging and the principle of indifference, an equally simple, more accurate and theoretically well founded classifier can be obtained.