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As discussed in Chapter 1, the main objective of supervised learning is to predict a target variable Y given the information in a vector of measurements or features X. In classification, Y has no numerical meaning, but codes for a number of different classes.
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Braga-Neto, U. (2020). Optimal Classification. In: Fundamentals of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27656-0_2
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