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Increasing the Classification Accuracy of Simple Bayesian Classifier
Abstract. Simple Bayes algorithm captures the assumption that every feature is
independent from the rest of the features, given the state of the class feature.
The fact that the assumption of independence is clearly almost always wrong
has led to a general rejection of the crude independence model in favor of more
complicated alternatives, at least by researchers knowledgeable about theoretical issues. In this study, we attempted to increase the prediction accuracy of the
simple Bayes model. Because the concept of combining classifiers is proposed
as a new direction for the improvement of the performance of individual classifiers, we made use of Adaboost, with the difference that in each iteration of
Adaboost, we used a discretization method and we removed redundant features
using a filter feature selection method. Finally, we performed a large-scale
comparison with other attempts that have tried to improve the accuracy of the
simple Bayes algorithm as well as other state-of-the-art algorithms and ensembles on 26 standard benchmark datasets and we took better accuracy in most
cases using less time for training, too.