2014-06-11 15:54 GMT+02:00 Gavin Gray <[email protected]>:
> I need to use Naive Bayes for mixed categorial and numerical data and was
> thinking of implementing a flexible Naive Bayes algorithm similar to Weka's
> instead of hacking my way around by converting the numerical to categorical
> or similar. Is there a good reason I shouldn't do this? Is anyone else
> interested in having this functionality? Or does anyone have any other
> comments?

I've thought about such a FrankensteinNB but never really found it
worthwhile. The API becomes complicated because you have to specify
which features follow which event model (and what would the model
attributes look like?). When dealing with mixed event models, I just
switch to discriminative classifiers, i.e. LinearSVC or
LogisticRegression.

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