[Spambayes] RE: Central Limit Theorem??!! :)

[Neil Schemenauer]

Tim Peters wrote:
>  zham            zspam
>  -17.8741370033  -20.4279646914
> 
> The best guess it can make is that it's closer to ham, but let's get real
> about this <wink>:  these are honest-to-God probabilities (well, directly
> related to honest-to-God probabilities), and at 18 sdevs away from the ham
> mean, the system is screaming there's not a chance in hell the msg fits what
> it knows about ham.  It's *also* screaming there's not a chance in hell the
> msg fits what it knows about spam.

I don't have anything useful to add except to say that this looks very
promising.  I'm an idiot when it comes to statistics but even I know
what 18 standard deviations means.  Also, having a system that generates
a "confidence" value in addition to a "rating" is a huge bonus.

No time to play with it now, unfortunately.  Maybe tomorrow.

  Neil