A multi-class classification problem is one where the goal is to predict a discrete variable that has three or more possible values. For example, you might want to predict a person's political leaning ...
Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) provide a robust framework for decomposing multi-class classification challenges into multiple binary sub-problems. By constructing a codematrix that assigns each ...
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to ...