Taxonomic classification of the thousands–millions of 16S rRNA gene sequences generated in microbiome studies is often achieved using a naïve Bayesian classifier (for example, the Ribosomal Database ...

Notice that all the data values are categorical (non-numeric). This is a key characteristic of the naive Bayes classification technique presented in this article . If you have numeric data, such as a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ ...