[bogofilter] Improved Calculations

[David Relson]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 13:46:26 +0200
Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

...[snip]...

> > We've got a scanning tool in bogotune that will
> > empirically find an answer. 
> 
> Not for train-on-error.
> 
> > Wouldn't it be nice to have a mathematical formula?
> 
> It would.
> 
> > Finding the ESF values is no harder and no easier. 
> 
> In train-on-error the values are built into the database (in
> a subtle way, but they are in there). So I can easily shift
> robx and the cutoffs to values I like. robs and min_dev are
> harder, but that seems to be OK. For the new parameters I
> don't even have an estimate.

True.  However you can implement a bogotune-like script, as in:

  for SP_ESF in ...values... ; do
    for NS_ESF in ...values... ; do
      run test and save results
    done
  done
  find best parameter set

Cheers!