Hi folks,

This question may be even lower level than Perl, but I could use some advice here.

I've been away from Perl for a bit (lack of time, nothing requiring it at work, etc.) but recently have been discussing with coworkers some topics involved in using Bayesian systems for prediction.

What I am considering is best given with an example. If we are given the year, month, month-day, weekday, location, and a few other miscellaneous bits of data and a price for a long enough period of time, is there a way for a computer to give a somewhat decent prediction of what the price will be tomorrow, given all the other factors for that day.

Is there a way to feed that data into a Bayesian-enabled Perl script? What would the Perl look like? What does any very basic Bayesian implementation look like in Perl? I've seen 190837, but that looks very specific to the spam problem.

Thanks,

KS

In reply to Bayesian not-for-spam by Kickstart

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