Re: SA needs a new paradigm for rule structure

[Marc Perkel]

RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:40:01 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote: I know that it seems like the idea of building up "meta" rules with a lot of small rules will give you a more accurate hit rate, but this is one of those non-intuitive things that can be shown by statistical mathmatics, that is that the concept won't work. Or rather, it won't work any better than the existing paradigm. I think you just just made that up. It clearly depends on the circumstances. If two rules correlate strongly in spam and weakly correlate or anti-correlate in ham, there's a case for creating a meta rule. In some cases it's possible to create useful meta-rules out of rules that aren't worth scoring individually. Do you know that 84% of statistics are just made up?