5-Minute Machine Learning

Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes

Andre Violante
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 11, 2021

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Naive Bayes is a set of simple and efficient machine learning algorithms for solving a variety of classification and regression problems. If you haven’t been in a stats class for a while or seeing the word “bayesian” makes you uneasy then this is may be a good 5-minute introduction. I’m going to give an explanation of Bayes theorem and then Naive Bayes within 5 minutes…

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