10-601 Naive Bayes

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601B in Spring 2016

Slides and Other Materials

• Catchup - MAP and Joint Distribution: Slides in Powerpoint, Slides in PDF
• Main lecture: Slides in Powerpoint, Slides in PDF

Readings

• Mitchell 6.1-6.10
• Murphy 3
• My favorite on-line Matlab docs

What You Should Know Afterward

• What conditional independence means
• How to implement the multinomial Naive Bayes algorithm
• How to interpret the predictions made by the NB algorithm