Re: Numerical attributes in NaiveBayes

[email protected] (Ken Williams) Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:00:30 -0500
Newsgroups perl.ai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 02:21  AM, Dominique Vlieghe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether the NaiveBayes Modules (AI::NaiveBayes1 and
> Algorithm::NaiveBayes) are capable of handling numerical attributes. A
> first glance on the code tells me they are not. Is this so and if yes,
> does anyone have an alternative package? Are there any plans to
> introduce numerical attributes in the modules?

Algorithm::NaiveBayes uses numerical attributes:

   $nb->add_instance
     (attributes => {foo => 1.7, bar => 3.234},
      label => 'whatever');

Or do I misunderstand your question?

  -Ken