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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2004
David Barrow, Great Easton Essex, GB;
Maarten Anton Keijzer, Utrecht, NL;
David Barrow, Great Easton Essex, GB;
Maarten Anton Keijzer, Utrecht, NL;
Chordiant Software Europe Limited, Middlesex, GB;
Abstract
Embodiments of a computer-implemented method of calculating estimates of a joint posterior probability of class membership given combinations of attribute values of a pair of attributes are disclosed. The calculating is performed on the basis of data representing a training set of a plurality of instances defined by attribute values for a plurality of attributes together with a class membership outcome. Embodiments of the method comprise calculating first and second estimates of a posterior probability of class membership given attribute values of a first and second attribute of the pair, respectively, and binning the first and second estimates into a respective plurality of first and second probability range bins. Instances of the training set are mapped to combinations of one of each of the first and second pluralities of probability range bins, and on the basis of the mapping, calculating estimates of a joint posterior probability of class membership.