Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses Python code samples and screenshots to explain naive Bayes classification, a machine learning technique used to predict the class of an item based on two ...

I indent my Python program using two spaces rather than the more common four spaces. The program imports the NumPy library which contains numeric array functionality. The MultinomialNB module has the ...

Taxonomic classification of the thousands–millions of 16S rRNA gene sequences generated in microbiome studies is often achieved using a naïve Bayesian classifier (for example, the Ribosomal ...