Bayesian learning under nonnormality

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Yılmaz, Yıldız Elif

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Naive Bayes classifier and maximum likelihood hypotheses in Bayesian learning are considered when the errors have non-normal distribution. For location and scale parameters, efficient and robust estimators that are obtained by using the modified maximum likelihood estimation (MML) technique are used. In naive Bayes classifier, the error distributions from class to class and from feature to feature are assumed to be non-identical and Generalized Secant Hyperbolic (GSH) and Generalized Logistic (GL) distribution families have been used instead of normal distribution. It is shown that the non-normal naive Bayes classifier obtained in this way classifies the data more accurately than the one based on the normality assumption. Furthermore, the maximum likelihood (ML) hypotheses are obtained under the assumption of non-normality, which also produce better results compared to the conventional ML approach.

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Electronic computers., Computer science.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12605582/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15006

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Y. E. Yılmaz, “Bayesian learning under nonnormality,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.