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Statistical classification is the problem of identifying the sub-population to which new observations belong, where the identity of the sub-population is unknown, on the basis of a training set of data containing observations whose sub-population is known. Therefore these classifications will show a variable behavior which can be studied by statistics.
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Asymmetric distance measure in k-NN classifier?
It has to be symmetric. The reason is because, KNN can be viewed as a non-parametric kernel density estimation problem. In the estimation problem you get a term of the form $K(x-x_{i})$ and $K$ is a K …
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How to include a pattern for'unknown' for an SVM classifier?
If you don't mind me asking, why use a SVM? why not do something like a multi-class logistic regression (apologies if you have already tried it but thought I should put this in there).
As a tip, thi …
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In Naive Bayes, why bother with Laplace smoothing when we have unknown words in the test set?
You always need this 'fail-safe' probability.
To see why consider the worst case where none of the words in the training sample appear in the test sentence. In this case, under your model we would c …