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4 Classification: Basic Concepts, Decision Trees, andModel EvaluationClassification, which is the task of assigning objects to one of several predefinedcategories, is a pervasive problem that encompasses many diverse include detecting spam email messages based upon the messageheader and content, categorizing cells as malignant or benign based upon theresults of MRI scans, and classifying galaxies based upon their shapes (seeFigure ).(a) A spiral galaxy.(b) An elliptical of galaxies. The images are from the NASA Chapter 4 ClassificationClassificationmodelInputAt tribute set(x)OutputClass label(y)Figure as the task of mapping an input attribute setxinto its class chapter introduces the Basic concepts of classification, describes someof the key issues such as Model overfitting, and presents methods for evaluatingand comparing the performance of a classification technique.
Evaluation of the performance of a classification model is based on the counts of test records correctly and incorrectly predicted by the model. These counts are tabulated in a table known as a confusion matrix. Table 4.2 depicts the confusion matrix for a …
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