Re: [R] [klaR package] [NaiveBayes] warning message numerical 0 probability

2010-11-15 Thread Uwe Ligges



On 03.11.2010 16:26, Fabon Dzogang wrote:

Hi,

I run R 2.10.1 under ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and klaR version 0.6-4.

I compute a model over a 2 classes dataset (composed of 700 examples).
To that aim, I use the function NaiveBayes provided in the package
klaR.
When I then use the prediction function : predict(my_model, new_data).
I get the following warning :

"In FUN(1:747[[747L]], ...) : Numerical 0 probability with observation 458"

As I did not find any documentation or any discussion concerning this
warning message, I looked in the klaR source code and found the
following line in predict.NaiveBayes.R :

"warning("Numerical 0 probability with observation ", i)"



Within Naive Bayes in order to calculate the posteriori probabilities of
the classes it is necessary to calculate the probabilities of the
observations given the classes. The function NaiveBayes prints a warning
if all these probabilities are numerical 0, i.e. that the observation
has a numerical probability of 0 for *all* classes. Usually this is only
the case when the obs. is an extreme outlier.

I will change the warning to say "all classes" in further releases of klaR.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges




Unfortunately, it is hard to get a clear picture of the whole process
reading the code. I wonder if someone could help me with the meaning
of this warning message.

Sorry I did not provide an example, but I could not simulate the same
message over a small toy example.

Thank you,

Fabon Dzogang.

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Re: [R] [klaR package] [NaiveBayes] warning message numerical 0 probability

2010-11-16 Thread Fabon Dzogang
Thank you very much for this clarification,

Sincerely,
Fabon Dzogang.

2010/11/15 Uwe Ligges :
>
>
> On 03.11.2010 16:26, Fabon Dzogang wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I run R 2.10.1 under ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and klaR version 0.6-4.
>>
>> I compute a model over a 2 classes dataset (composed of 700 examples).
>> To that aim, I use the function NaiveBayes provided in the package
>> klaR.
>> When I then use the prediction function : predict(my_model, new_data).
>> I get the following warning :
>>
>> "In FUN(1:747[[747L]], ...) : Numerical 0 probability with observation
>> 458"
>>
>> As I did not find any documentation or any discussion concerning this
>> warning message, I looked in the klaR source code and found the
>> following line in predict.NaiveBayes.R :
>>
>> "warning("Numerical 0 probability with observation ", i)"
>
>
> Within Naive Bayes in order to calculate the posteriori probabilities of
> the classes it is necessary to calculate the probabilities of the
> observations given the classes. The function NaiveBayes prints a warning
> if all these probabilities are numerical 0, i.e. that the observation
> has a numerical probability of 0 for *all* classes. Usually this is only
> the case when the obs. is an extreme outlier.
>
> I will change the warning to say "all classes" in further releases of klaR.
>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>> Unfortunately, it is hard to get a clear picture of the whole process
>> reading the code. I wonder if someone could help me with the meaning
>> of this warning message.
>>
>> Sorry I did not provide an example, but I could not simulate the same
>> message over a small toy example.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Fabon Dzogang.
>>
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>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
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>



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Re: [R] [klaR package] [NaiveBayes] warning message numerical 0 probability

2011-11-10 Thread Ted Chang
Uwe Ligges  statistik.tu-dortmund.de> writes:

> 
> 
> On 03.11.2010 16:26, Fabon Dzogang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I run R 2.10.1 under ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and klaR version 0.6-4.
> >
> > I compute a model over a 2 classes dataset (composed of 700 examples).
> > To that aim, I use the function NaiveBayes provided in the package
> > klaR.
> > When I then use the prediction function : predict(my_model, new_data).
> > I get the following warning :
> >
> > "In FUN(1:747[[747L]], ...) : Numerical 0 probability with observation 458"
> >
> > As I did not find any documentation or any discussion concerning this
> > warning message, I looked in the klaR source code and found the
> > following line in predict.NaiveBayes.R :
> >
> > "warning("Numerical 0 probability with observation ", i)"
> 
> Within Naive Bayes in order to calculate the posteriori probabilities of
> the classes it is necessary to calculate the probabilities of the
> observations given the classes. The function NaiveBayes prints a warning
> if all these probabilities are numerical 0, i.e. that the observation
> has a numerical probability of 0 for *all* classes. Usually this is only
> the case when the obs. is an extreme outlier.
> 
> I will change the warning to say "all classes" in further releases of klaR.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> > Unfortunately, it is hard to get a clear picture of the whole process
> > reading the code. I wonder if someone could help me with the meaning
> > of this warning message.
> >
> > Sorry I did not provide an example, but I could not simulate the same
> > message over a small toy example.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Fabon Dzogang.
> >
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> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> 

Hello,

I am following this thread after it's one year old!

I am also getting the warnings for probabilities=0, but for ALL observations! 
I am using NaiveBayes() to obtain the posteriors of all training examples (29
classes; 49 numeric continuous variables, 700 examples), thus the command:

my.model <-NaiveBayes(class ~ ., data = data, usekernel = TRUE)

predict(my.model)

as expected, it returns predicted classes and a matrix of posteriors for each
training examples, BUT with this warning for ALL training examples. Still the
accuracy is ~60% and is within expectation.
Please give some comments, Is this possible?? Should I ignore the warnings??

The posteriors returned look like this:

 Class1   class2class3class4  ...
1  6.725408e-58  0.6  4.277379e-09  2.923033e-90
2  4.443767e-48  0.997316780  2.683220e-03  1.710466e-75
3  3.348223e-40  0.93916  6.799327e-08  6.760083e-81
... ...

Sorry I am replying via the Gmane interface and cannot attach my dataset. But I
am starting to follow this mailing list now, so may be able to reply with
attachments to the next message.

grateful for any comments!

Ted Chang

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Re: [R] [klaR package] [NaiveBayes] warning message numerical 0 probability

2011-11-10 Thread Uwe Ligges



On 10.11.2011 09:00, Ted Chang wrote:

Uwe Ligges  statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  writes:




On 03.11.2010 16:26, Fabon Dzogang wrote:

Hi,

I run R 2.10.1 under ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and klaR version 0.6-4.

I compute a model over a 2 classes dataset (composed of 700 examples).
To that aim, I use the function NaiveBayes provided in the package
klaR.
When I then use the prediction function : predict(my_model, new_data).
I get the following warning :

"In FUN(1:747[[747L]], ...) : Numerical 0 probability with observation 458"

As I did not find any documentation or any discussion concerning this
warning message, I looked in the klaR source code and found the
following line in predict.NaiveBayes.R :

"warning("Numerical 0 probability with observation ", i)"


Within Naive Bayes in order to calculate the posteriori probabilities of
the classes it is necessary to calculate the probabilities of the
observations given the classes. The function NaiveBayes prints a warning
if all these probabilities are numerical 0, i.e. that the observation
has a numerical probability of 0 for *all* classes. Usually this is only
the case when the obs. is an extreme outlier.

I will change the warning to say "all classes" in further releases of klaR.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges


Unfortunately, it is hard to get a clear picture of the whole process
reading the code. I wonder if someone could help me with the meaning
of this warning message.

Sorry I did not provide an example, but I could not simulate the same
message over a small toy example.

Thank you,

Fabon Dzogang.

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Hello,

I am following this thread after it's one year old!

I am also getting the warnings for probabilities=0, but for ALL observations!
I am using NaiveBayes() to obtain the posteriors of all training examples (29
classes; 49 numeric continuous variables, 700 examples), thus the command:

my.model<-NaiveBayes(class ~ ., data = data, usekernel = TRUE)


Please send data and code (if the above is not all the code) to me 
privately. I'll take a look.


Best,
Uwe Ligges





predict(my.model)

as expected, it returns predicted classes and a matrix of posteriors for each
training examples, BUT with this warning for ALL training examples. Still the
accuracy is ~60% and is within expectation.
Please give some comments, Is this possible?? Should I ignore the warnings??

The posteriors returned look like this:

  Class1   class2class3class4  ...
1  6.725408e-58  0.6  4.277379e-09  2.923033e-90
2  4.443767e-48  0.997316780  2.683220e-03  1.710466e-75
3  3.348223e-40  0.93916  6.799327e-08  6.760083e-81
... ...

Sorry I am replying via the Gmane interface and cannot attach my dataset. But I
am starting to follow this mailing list now, so may be able to reply with
attachments to the next message.

grateful for any comments!

Ted Chang

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