• dumples@midwest.social
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    5 days ago

    Also to note that there’s a statistical term called Naive Bayes which basically has no assumptions to calculate some things. So basically no assumptions is the best definition

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      5 days ago

      I would actually interpret “naive” in this context as making very strong assumptions. In particular, a strong assumption of independence between variables that likely doesn’t hold, but is good enough for many purposes.