diff --git a/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex b/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex index 8e21bbe..d101572 100644 --- a/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex +++ b/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex @@ -118,7 +118,17 @@ \paragraph{Naive Bayes Classifier} - \cite{naivebayes} + \cite{naivebayes} is a classification method according to Bayes' theorem, + shown in \Cref{eq:bayes}. Bayes' theorem allows us to calculate the + probability of an event taking into account prior knowledge of conditions of + the event in question. In classification this allows us to calculate the + probability that a new instance has a certain class based its features. We + then assign the class that has the highest probability. + + \begin{equation} + \label{eq:bayes} + P(A\mid B)=\frac {P(B\mid A)\,P(A)}{P(B)} + \end{equation} \paragraph{$k$-Nearest Neighbors}