Chapter 6

Naïve Bayes Classificaton II

M. Fareed Akhtar

Fastonish, Australia

The use case of this chapter applies the Naïve Bayes operator on the Nursery dataset (overview of the Naïve Bayes algorithm has been discussed in the previous chapter). The working of the Naïve Bayes operator is also discussed in detail. The purpose of this use case is to rank applications for nursery schools using the Naïve Bayes algorithm. The operators explained in this chapter are: Read Excel and Select Attributes operators.

6.1 Dataset

6.1.1 Nursery Dataset

This dataset has been taken from the UCI repositories. This dataset can be accessed through this link: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Nursery.

6.1.2 Basic Information

Nursery Database was derived ...

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