Sorry for my poor wording.

Just to confirm:
for CNB, smaller is better?
for NB, larger is better?

On Sep 15, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Robin Anil wrote:

> Smaller is better(negative number so largest of the negative number in
> absolute value), this is to say if you have the lowest affinity to the
> complement class, you have highest affinity to the actual class which the
> data belongs to.


> Unless the new computation is spitting out positive numbers
> in which case its the largest.

:-)

> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote:
> 
>> What's the interpretation of scores for the output from the new
>> (complementary) naive bayes classifiers?  Larger is better, right?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Grant
>> 
>> 
>> 


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