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Statistical classification is the problem of identifying the sub-population to which new observations belong, where the identity of the sub-population is unknown, on the basis of a training set of data containing observations whose sub-population is known. Therefore these classifications will show a variable behavior which can be studied by statistics.

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Where did the term "learn a model" come from

The term is quite old in artifical intelligence. Turing devoted a long section on "Learning Machines" in his 1950 Computing Machinery and Intelligence paper in Mind, and qualitatively sketches out su …
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Best way to present a random forest in a publication?

Keep in mind the caveats in the other answers about the plot necessarily being meaningful. But if you want a plot for illustrative/pedagogical purposes, the following snippet of R might be useful. N …
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