Re: [SAtalk] chi squared combining

2003-09-30 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:27:51PM -0700, Matt Tolton wrote: > Should the Bayesian classifier use chi-squared combining, instead of > Robinson/Graham-style naive Bayesian combining? Chi-squared produces more 'extreme' > output results, but may be more resistant to changes in corpus size etc. >

[SAtalk] chi squared combining

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Tolton
Hi List, I realize I asked this question a bit ago but nobody seemed to know anything so I'm asking again to double check:   What is chi squared combining and how does it affect bayesian filtering?   Quoting from the docs:   bayes_use_chi2_combining (default: 0) Should the Bayesian classif