Concept - Conditional Independence

Chain rule (s.22): .

Naive Bayes assumption (s.22): attributes are independent, given the class: , …, , so

Realism (s.21): often violated in practice; even then it usually works well (text classification, diagnosis).

Concept - Naive Bayes, Concept - Curse of Dimensionality, Concept - Probability Basics

Source: 03 Text Classification - Chunk 01 (s.1-30)