Classification: Definition a Given a collection of records(training set e Each record contains a set of attributes one of the attributes is the class find a mode for class attribute as a function of the values of other attributes a Goal: previously unseen records should be assigned a class as accurately as possible atest set is used to determine the accuracy of the model Usually, the given data set is divided into training and test sets, with training set used to build the model and test set used to validate itClassification: Definition ◼ Given a collection of records (training set ) ◆ Each record contains a set of attributes, one of the attributes is the class. ◼ Find a model for class attribute as a function of the values of other attributes. ◼ Goal: previously unseen records should be assigned a class as accurately as possible. ◆ A test set is used to determine the accuracy of the model. Usually, the given data set is divided into training and test sets, with training set used to build the model and test set used to validate it