Re:Peter Norvig: Tweaking Bayes' Theorem
by bermanoid on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:40AM
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If you're maximizing over all possible values of W, A never changes, which is why the /P(A) will usually be omitted from the function you're maximizing.
You're right, though, it shouldn't be written as P(W|A) in that case, that's misleading.
You're right, though, it shouldn't be written as P(W|A) in that case, that's misleading.