One way to d esign a spam filter is to look at the words in an email.
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One way to d esign a spam filter is to look at the words in an email. In particular, some words are more frequent in spam emails. Suppose that we have the following information:
- 50% of emails are spam;
- 1% of spam emails contain the word "refinance";
- 0.001% of non-spam emails contain the word "refinance".
Suppose that an email is checked and found to contain the word "refinance". What is the probability that the email is spam?
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Introduction To Probability Statistics And Random Processes
ISBN: 9780990637202
1st Edition
Authors: Hossein Pishro-Nik
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