How can we use Naive Bayes classifier for categorical features? What if some features are numerical?

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Possible duplicate of [Where to find a guide to encoding categorical features?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/225395/where-to-find-a-guide-to-encoding-categorical-features) — user5226582, Sep 20 '17 at 09:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '17 at 06:13

We can use naïve bayes classifier for categorical variables using one-hot encoding. If we have n categories then we create n-1 dummy variables or features and add to our data. If the particular category is associated with a row then we assign it as 1 otherwise 0. If we have some numerical features we can discretize numeric values into few categories. For example we can categorize marks of students in a class as low, medium or high. Other method we can use for this is probability density function where we assume the probability distribution of attribute follows a normal distribution

How can we use Naive Bayes classifier for categorical features? What if some features are numerical?

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