Reference Probability of + for each attribute in each group P(+|g). First row Group Name (Single character of word) Each Subsequent row the probability of an attribute (in order) for each group Group_1 Group_2 Group_3 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.6
New Data to be Assigned to Groups. Single column of + or - Number of chrs must be same as number of attributes Each row a case to be assigned to a group +-+-- +--+- +---+ -++-- -+-+- -+--+ ----+	Array of of A Priori Probabilities Single Row of relative frequencies or probabilities for each group Number of columns = number of groups Array of Costs Coefficients Single row of relative cost or loss for each group if erroneously not assigned. Number of columns = number of groups

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