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A Naive Bayes classifier is a probabilistic machine learning model that’s used for classification

task. It is a classification technique based on Bayes’ Theorem with an assumption of


independence among predictors. In simple terms, a Naive Bayes classifier assumes that the
presence of a particular feature in a class is unrelated to the presence of any other feature.
For example, a fruit may be considered to be an apple if it is red, round, and about 3 inches in
diameter. Even if these features depend on each other or upon the existence of the other
features, all of these properties independently contribute to the probability that this fruit is an
apple and that is why it is known as ‘Naive’.

Naive Bayes model is easy to build and particularly useful for very large data sets. Along with
simplicity, Naive Bayes is known to outperform even highly sophisticated classification
methods.

Bayes theorem provides a way of calculating posterior probability P(c|x) from P(c), P(x) and
P(x|c).

 P(c|x) is the posterior probability of class (c, target) given predictor (x, attributes).
 P(c) is the prior probability of class.
 P(x|c) is the likelihood which is the probability of predictor given class.
 P(x) is the prior probability of predictor.

Some popular examples of Naïve Bayes Algorithm are spam filtration, Sentimental analysis,
and classifying articles.

Working of Naïve Bayes' Classifier:

Working of Naïve Bayes' Classifier can be understood with the help of the below example:

Suppose we have a dataset of weather conditions and corresponding target variable "Play".
So using this dataset we need to decide that whether we should play or not on a particular day
according to the weather conditions. So to solve this problem, we need to follow the below
steps:

1. Convert the given dataset into frequency tables.


2. Generate Likelihood table by finding the probabilities of given features.
3. Now, use Bayes theorem to calculate the posterior probability.

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