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Robust Approach for Estimating Probabilities in Naive-Bayes Classifier

B. ChandraContact Information, Manish Gupta2 and M. P. Gupta1

(1)  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110 016, India
(2)  Institute for Systems Studies and Analyses, Metcalfe House, Delhi, 110 054, India
Abstract
Naive-Bayes classifier is a popular technique of classification in machine learning. Improving the accuracy of naive-Bayes classifier will be significant as it has great importance in classification using numerical attributes. For numeric attributes, the conditional probabilities are either modeled by some continuous probability distribution over the range of that attribute’s values or by conversion of numeric attribute to discrete one using discretization. The limitation of the classifier using discretization is that it does not classify those instances for which conditional probabilities of any of the attribute value for every class is zero. The proposed method resolves this limitation of estimating probabilities in the naive-Bayes classifier and improve the classification accuracy for noisy data. The proposed method is efficient and robust in estimating probabilities in the naive-Bayes classifier. The proposed method has been tested over a number of databases of UCI machine learning repository and the comparative results of existing naive-Bayes classifier and proposed method has also been illustrated.

Contact Information B. Chandra
Email: bchandra104@yahoo.co.in
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