Categorical Target Label

A categorical target label is a target attribute value of a categorical target attribute.

• AKA: Categorical Target Value, Target Class.
• Context:
  • It can be:
    • a Binary Target Value.
    • an n-Ary Target Value.
  • It can be referenced by:
    • a Training Record Label.
    • a Testing Record Label.
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• Example(s):
  • a Positive Label.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • • an Ordinal Target Value, for an Ordinal Target.
    • a Numeric Target Value, for a Numeric Target.
• See: Label, Discrete Value, Multiclass Classification.

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References

2008

• (Wilson, 2008a) ⇒ Bill Wilson. (2008). “The Machine Learning Dictionary for COMP9414." University of New South Wales, Australia.
  • 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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