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Naive Bayes Continuous is a supervised learning component. It implements the naive bayes principle for continuous predictors (gaussian assumption, heteroscedasticity or homoscedasticity). The main originality is that it provides an explicit model corresponding to a linear combination of predictors and, eventually, their square. Enhancement of the reporting module.

The nature of the predictors' selection process has changed considerably. Previously, works in machine learning concentrated on the research of the best subset of features for a learning classifier, in the context where the number of candidate features was rather reduced and the computing time was not a major constraint. Today, it is common to deal with datasets comprising thousands of descriptors. Consequently, the problem of feature selection always consists in finding the most relevant subset of predictors but by introducing a new strong constraint: the computing time must remain reasonable. In this tutorial, we are interested in correlation based filter approaches for discrete predictors . The goal is to highlight the most relevant subset of predictors which are highly correlated with the target attribute and, in the same time, which are weakly correlated between them i.e. which are not redundant. To evaluate the behavior of the various methods, we use an artificial dataset whe...