Categorical Target Attribute
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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.
- ...
- Example(s):
- the Target Attribute in Fisher's iris dataset.
- ...
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Predictor Feature.
- an Ordinal Target.
- a Numerical Target.
- See: Classification Learning Record.
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.