The task of classifying the elements of a given set into two groups (predicting which group each one belongs to) on the basis of a classification rule
Also known as dichotomous trait
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Binary classification is the task of putting things into one of two categories. As such, it is the simplest form of the general task of classification into any number of classes. Typical binary classification problems include:Medical testing to determine if a patient has a certain disease or not; Quality control in industry, deciding whether a specification has been met; In information retrieval, deciding whether a page should be in the result set of a search or not In administration, deciding whether someone should be issued with a driving licence or not In cognition, deciding whether an object is food or not food.