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Naive-Bayes induction algorithms were previously shown to be surprisingly accurate on many classification tasks even when the conditional independence assumption on which they are based is violated. However, most studies were done on small databases. We show that in some larger databases, the accuracy of Naive-Bayes does not scale up as well as decision trees. We then propose a new algorithm, N...

A survey of modern Bayesian asymptotics is given. Specific attention is paid to the Hellinger consistency of posterior distributions and the asymptotic study of Bayes factors.

Pulp and Paper Research Division, BCSIR Laboratories, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton E3B 5A3, NB, Canada Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China Key Laboratory of Auxiliary Chemistry and Technology for Chemical Industry, Ministry of Education, Shaanxi University...

This implies that the Bayes risk is 0. The Bayes risk of δπ(X) can be calculated as repeated expectation in two ways, r(π, δπ) = EθEX|θ(θ − δπ(X)) = EXEθ|X(θ − δπ(X)). Thus, conveniently choosing either EθEX|θ or EXEθ|X and using the properties of conditional expectation we have, r(π, δπ) = EθEX|θθ2 −EθEX|θθδπ(X)−EXEθ|Xθδπ(X) + EXEθ|Xδ2 π(X) = EθEX|θθ2 −Eθθ[EX|θδπ(X)]− EXδπ(X)Eθ|Xθ + EXEθ|Xδ2 π...

Northern Bizkaian Basque shares important prosodic features with Tokyo Japanese, including the existence of a lexical distinction between accented and unaccented content words, the presence of phrase-initial rises and the consistent realization of accents as tonal falls. In this paper we investigate whether NB Basque is also like Japanese in not making use of syllable duration as a correlate of...

Padé/renormalization-group improvement of inclusive semileptonic B decay rates M. R. Ahmady, F. A. Chishtie, V. Elias, ∗ A. H. Fariborz, D.G.C. McKeon, † T. N. Sherry and T. G. Steele Department of Physics, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1E6, Canada F. R. Newman Laboratory of Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical ...

We investigate the task of predicting prepositions that can be used to describe the spatial relationships between pairs of objects depicted in images. We explore the extent to which such spatial prepositions can be predicted from (a) language information, (b) visual information, and (c) combinations of the two. In this paper we describe the dataset of object pairs and prepositions we have creat...