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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