[Spambayes] There Can Be Only One

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:14:31 -0400


Here are my results on the test setup exactly as suggested, Graham on the
left and f(w) on the right:

false positive percentages
    0.500  0.500  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied

won   0 times
tied 10 times
lost  0 times

total unique fp went from 1 to 1 tied
mean fp % went from 0.05 to 0.05 tied

false negative percentages
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.000  0.000  tied
    0.500  0.000  won   -100.00%
    0.000  0.000  tied

won   1 times
tied  9 times
lost  0 times

total unique fn went from 1 to 0 won   -100.00%
mean fn % went from 0.05 to 0.0 won   -100.00%