The classification problem a Given a database consisting of n records Each record characterized by m attributes Each record pre-classified into p different classes Find A set of classification rules(that constitutes a classification model) that characterizes the different classes so that records not originally in the database can be accurately classified I. e predicting"class labels5 The Classification Problem Given: – A database consisting of n records. – Each record characterized by m attributes. – Each record pre-classified into p different classes. Find: – A set of classification rules (that constitutes a classification model) that characterizes the different classes – so that records not originally in the database can be accurately classified. – I.e “predicting” class labels