Independence Is a Product

Inside spam, P(free)=0.40 and P(money)=0.30 make an independent product 0.12, but the true joint is 0.18. Leftover dependence 0.06 is what Naive Bayes under-prices; uncorrelated is not independent (Y = X²).

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