Developer Guide for Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library 2016 Update 4
Naïve Bayes is a set of simple and powerful classification methods often used for text classification, medical diagnosis, and other classification problems. In spite of their main assumption about independence between features, Naïve Bayes classifiers often work well when this assumption does not hold. An advantage of this method is that it requires only a small amount of training data to estimate model parameters.