Anonymous Reader writes “A good example of using a probability model to solove a serious problem is the SpamBayes filtering engine, which uses machine learning and Bayesian inference techniques to compute the probability that a given piece of e-mail is spam. This article demonstrates how to develop univariate probability models in PHP; discusses how to fit empirical data distributions to a theoretical probability distribution; and showcases an important tool for all this — the Probability Distributions Library (PDL).”
Link: ibm.com
