This paper should tell you how alpha works: http://qwone.com/~jason/papers/sm-thesis.pdf
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I see that I can set an alpha(smoothing parameter) to the Naive Bayes > classifier in apache mahout. The default value of alpha has been set to 1 > and is an optional parameter. How does this alpha value affect the > classification results, can I just ignore it and use the default value or > should I change it for optimal classification? > > -- > With Thanks and Regards, > Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, > SASTRA University > +91 9626975420 >
