GATE DA 2025 Q35: Naive Bayes: probability of misclassifying x
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The naive Bayes classifier is used to solve a two-class classification problem with class-labels . Suppose the prior probabilities are and . Assuming a discrete feature space with
for a specific feature vector . The probability of misclassifying is ____ (Round off to two decimal places)
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Answer: 0.39 to 0.41 (official GATE 2025 final answer key)
Concept used: Bayes decision rule: choose the class with the larger posterior; the error is the other posterior.
First step: Compare with , then normalise to get the posteriors.
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Source: official GATE 2025 DA question paper and final answer key, organised by IIT Roorkee. Question paper · Answer key
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