Briefing Cloudera Knowledge

Why is the naive Bayes classifier "naive"?

Why is the naive Bayes classifier “naive”?

A.
It generally performs worsethan more complex methods

B.
It Is an unbiased estimator

C.
It assumes Independence between all features

D.
It makes no assumptions on the underlying distributions (i.e., it is non-parametric)

Explanation:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/naive-bayes-classification.html