nb: Functions to run the naive Bayes classifier

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A data set composed of 395 observations and 33 variables referring to study about math students performance in portuguese schools.

1	data(students)

school student's school sex student's sex age student's age address student's home address type famsize family size Pstatus parent's cohabitation status Medu mother's education Fedu father's education Mjob mother's job Fjob father's job reason reason to choose this school guardian student's guardian traveltime home to school travel time studytime weekly study time failures number of past class failures schoolsup extra educational support famsup family educational support paid extra paid classes within the course subject activities extra-curricular activities nursery attended nursery school higher wants to take higher education internet Internet access at home romantic with a romantic relationship famrel quality of family relationships freetime free time after school goout going out with friends Dalc workday alcohol consumption Walc weekend alcohol consumption health current health status absences number of school absences grade1 first period grade grade2 second period grade grade3 final grade

A codification of the grades 1, 2 and 3 was done following Cortez and A. Silva (2008). However, the letter E means fails rather than letter F, which was used in the original manuscript.

P. Cortez and A. Silva. Using Data Mining to Predict Secondary School Student Performance. In A. Brito and J. Teixeira Eds., Proceedings of 5th FUture BUsiness TEChnology Conference (FUBUTEC 2008) pp. 5-12, Porto, Portugal, April, 2008, EUROSIS, ISBN 978-9077381-39-7.

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