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Jun 1, 2021 at 7:53 comment added MUK It perform well in case of categorical input variables compared to numerical variable(s). For numerical variable, normal distribution is assumed (bell curve, which is a strong assumption).
May 31, 2016 at 23:42 comment added R Greg Stacey Thanks. Didn't mean to nit pick. Just wondered if I understood correctly.
May 31, 2016 at 23:09 vote accept R Greg Stacey
May 31, 2016 at 23:09 comment added Matthew Gunn @Qroid Without reading anything (so I could be wrong), my guess is that they mean Gaussian Naive Bayes. Often times you need to read text reasonably rather than explicitly.
May 31, 2016 at 23:06 comment added R Greg Stacey Is the paper badly worded / incorrect then? Do they just mean "Naive Bayes often assumes normality?"
May 31, 2016 at 23:00 history answered Matthew Gunn CC BY-SA 3.0