Note on Bayesian Screening of Possibly Rare Features for Predictive Value
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In the situation of interest, we want to classify an object into one of two categories, call them A and B, on the basis of the presence or absence of multiple features, call them F1, F2, . . .. A specific feature F is characterized by the probabilities with which it occurs (denoted +F ) or does not occur (denoted −F ) when the truth is actually A or B, respectively. In other words, we have the ordinary 2× 2 contingency table,
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