From: Raul M. <mo...@ma...> - 2004-03-31 05:09:26
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:25:37PM -0500, I wrote: > More specifically, at time T0 it's not known whether a document will be > classified as spam or non-spam. At time T1 this is known. At time T0, > we can assign a probability to the chance that it will be classified > into one of these two sets. I should probably add, in case it's not obvious: the probability P(class|feature) is the classification probability which would be assigned by a hypothetical observer who is only allowed to know the presence or absence of that specific feature and (eventuallY) the document's classification. - Raul |