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What is the difference between Gaussian Naive Bayes and multinomial Naive Bayes?
Multinomial naive Bayes assumes to have feature vector where each element represents the number of times it appears (or, very often, its frequency). The Gaussian Naive Bayes, instead, is based on a continuous distribution and it’s suitable for more generic classification tasks.
What is the difference between Bernoulli and multinomial Naive Bayes?
Difference between Bernoulli, Multinomial and Gaussian Naive Bayes. Multinomial Naïve Bayes consider a feature vector where a given term represents the number of times it appears or very often i.e. frequency. On the other hand, Bernoulli is a binary algorithm used when the feature is present or not.
Which is a binomial naive Bayes or a Gaussian Bayes?
The grey circles represent manifest/observed variables. If the P ( X | C) ‘s are binary variables the model is a binomial Naive Bayes, and multinomial Naive Bayes if multinomial distribution and Gaussian if continuous Gaussian distribution (parameters are only mean and variance). In case where x’s are TF-IDF values I agree with the previous answer.
How does multinomial naive Bayes model work?
The Multinomial Naive Bayes model counts how often a certain event occurs in the dataset (for example how often a certain word occurs in a document).
Which is the best form of naive Bayes to use?
For a quick histogram you can do this: If most of your features are following a bernoulli distribution , you should be good to use Multinomial (Bernoulli) NB and if they are following a Gaussian (Normal) distribution, Gaussian Bayes should be good.
When to use the Gaussian, Bernoulli naive Bayes?
Gaussian Naive Bayes : Because of the assumption of the normal distribution, Gaussian Naive Bayes is used in cases when all our features are continuous. For Bernoulli Naive Bayes : It assumes that all our features are binary such that they take only two values.