2012/5/24 Ian Goodfellow <[email protected]>:
> Well that's the thing, coef_ and intercept_ seem wrong, given the
> results of my script below. My implementation of predict based on
> coef_ only agrees with predict 50% of the time.
> Does anyone know if coef_ and intercept_ are just getting set wrong?
> Or does predict implement a different decision function than
> (X*coef_+intercept_)>0?

If X is dense then this should be, for binary classification with a
linear kernel:

np.dot(X, clf.coef_) - clf.intercept > 0 (if I remember correctly the
sign of the intercept)

Off course this formula is specific to the dense linear case. It won't
work for the SVC models with kernels.

-- 
Olivier
http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel

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