(C)NB classifier scores

2011-09-15 Thread Grant Ingersoll
What's the interpretation of scores for the output from the new (complementary) naive bayes classifiers? Larger is better, right? Thanks, Grant

Re: (C)NB classifier scores

2011-09-15 Thread Robin Anil
Smaller is better(negative number so largest of the negative number in absolute value), this is to say if you have the lowest affinity to the complement class, you have highest affinity to the actual class which the data belongs to. Unless the new computation is spitting out positive numbers in whi

Re: (C)NB classifier scores

2011-09-15 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Sorry for my poor wording. Just to confirm: for CNB, smaller is better? for NB, larger is better? On Sep 15, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Robin Anil wrote: > Smaller is better(negative number so largest of the negative number in > absolute value), this is to say if you have the lowest affinity to the > co

Re: (C)NB classifier scores

2011-09-15 Thread Robin Anil
yes On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Sorry for my poor wording. > > Just to confirm: > for CNB, smaller is better? > for NB, larger is better? > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Robin Anil wrote: > > > Smaller is better(negative number so largest of the negative number in