Naive Bayes - within-class variance must be positive.

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Nirmal
Nirmal 2012-6-4
I am trying to use Naive Bayes for some classification task, I am not sure what it is complaining about.
??? Error using ==> NaiveBayes.fit>gaussianFit at 535
The within-class variance in each feature of TRAINING must be positive. The within-class variance in
feature 5 6 12 13 15 16 17 in class 1 are not positive.
Error in ==> NaiveBayes.fit at 498
obj = gaussianFit(obj, training, gindex);
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Tom Lane
Tom Lane 2012-6-5
Suppose you have data X and classes C. Can you look at
var(X(C==1,:)
If you see that columns 5, 6, 12, etc. have zero variance, that is the problem. The fit is based on fitting a normal distribution separately for each class and feature. If any class has 0 variance for a feature, that normal fit is degenerate.
What you want to do about this depends on you. It is possible to change the fit to a kernel density estimate and specify the width. Or you could try a decision tree or knn classifier.

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