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Classification

Classification is a data science task of predicting the value of a categorical variable (target or class) by building a model based on one or more numerical and/or categorical variables (predictors or attributes).
 
Four main groups of classification algorithms are:
  1. Frequency Table
  2. Covariance Matrix
  3. Similarity Functions
  4. Others