What algebra can be done on the classification scores? For example:

Classification of A : 60%
Classification of B: 80%
A and B are correct: ?
A or B are correct: ?

Of course these exist for probabilities but I have not found handy
formulae. Do these forumulae even exist with log-likelihood?

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> It always tells you the most likely category, but you can redefine the
> output to only trigger if the most likely category really dominates the
> results.
>
> With two categories, this is reasonable.  For a dozen it is much more
> debatable.
>
> This works with the SGD classifiers as well and I have seen this used in a
> multi-level classifier.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Stuart Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does naive bayes always classify a document into a category?
>> Or will it refuse to classify something it cannot?
>>



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