Testing fisher

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Wed Jan 29 14:15:50 CET 2003


Greg Louis wrote:

> I note that your totals have grown; one improbable but not impossible
> artefact could be that you've introduced a bunch of hard spams in the
> most recent batch.

This is unlikely, since I just added the normal flow of mail.

> Trouble is, I can't think of a mechanism by which raising robx, in the
> absence of any other parameter changes, could lower resulting
> spamicities.  Any chance you could repeat the experiment, just for
> 0.025, 0.020 and 0.015, with the exact same training db and message
> corpora, with both robx values?  We could be onto something big here.

I can with the same training set. The bogofilter database is
constantly updating, though. If you also want to avoid this,
I could make a copy of those and freeze it this way.

pi





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