You should pretty much always use 1. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should 1 be the default? > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be clear, you can set it to any non-zero value you like but the > > algorithm will adjust what it learns and you will get the same result. > > > > Setting the intercept to anything except 1 is thus a way to make your > > program perversely hard for somebody to understand when they read your > > program. > > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> No just set the bias term to 1 in all cases. > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, damodar shetyo < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Is it required that i set the bias(intercept) equal to one only?Or > can i > >> > set it to any constant value x? > >> > > >> > Also How can choose value of bias for different types of data (other > data > >> > like spam .non spam /email data etc , or assigning category to news > >> items) > >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > [email protected] >
