The Naive Bayes technique can be used for binary classification, for example predicting if a person is male or female based on predictors such as age, height, weight, and so on), or for multiclass ...

Bayes' Theorem is named after 18th-century British mathematician Thomas Bayes. It is also called Bayes' Rule or Bayes' Law and is the foundation of the field of Bayesian statistics.

We show that the 'naive Bayes' classifier which assumes independent covariates greatly outperforms the Fisher linear discriminant rule under broad conditions when the number of variables grows faster ...

Jessica Minnier, Ming Yuan, Jun S. Liu, Tianxi Cai, Risk Classification With an Adaptive Naive Bayes Kernel Machine Model, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 110, No. 509 (March ...