man page problems

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Tue Dec 9 17:58:32 CET 2003


David Relson wrote:

>> The man page describes how bogofilter started from Paul's
>> article, how that was improved, Gary's contribution, further
>> improvements to Fisher. The latter has no further
>> explanation or link. Can someone give a short description or
>> a link for it?
> 
> Gary has suggested two algorithm.  We generally call them the "robinson"
> and "fisher" algorithms.  As Greg often points out, more accurate names
> are the "robinson geometric mean" and the "robinson fisher" algorithms. 
> In the second one, Gary added a reverse chi-square calculation to the
> end of the computation.  My understanding is that the reverse chi-square
> technique was developed by Fisher for other purposes and applied by
> Robinson to bayesian calculations.

So what is the best source for "robinson fisher" and where
can I find something about Fisher or his techniques?

pi




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