Categorical Target Attribute

A categorical target attribute is a target attribute from a categorical attribute (with two or more categorical target labels).

• AKA: Target Class, Categorical Target, Latent Class.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) represent a Discrete Dependent Variable.
  • It can range from being a Binary Target Attribute to being an Nary Target Attribute.
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• Example(s):
  • the Target Attribute in Fisher's iris dataset.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Predictor Feature.
  • an Ordinal Target.
  • a Numerical Target.
• See: Classification Learning Record.

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References

2008

• (Wilson, 2008a) ⇒ Bill Wilson. (2008). “The Machine Learning Dictionary for COMP9414." University of New South Wales, Australia.
  • QUOTE: In a classification task in machine learning, the task is to take each instance and assign it to a particular class. … Frequently in examples, for the sake of simplicity if nothing else, just two classes, sometimes called positive and negative, are used.

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