On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:16:00AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Theo remarked in another thread that Bayes is most accurate when the DB
> nspam is approximately equal to nham.

That's not what I said.  I said that you can't be necessarily surprised
if spam is classified as ham if your training set is heavily weighted
towards ham.

It's really based on nspam/ham per token, but when you heavily weight
in one direction, it's likely the same weighting will occur per token.

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