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Classification is an increasingly important application of modern methods in statistics. In the statistical literature the word is used in two distinct senses. The entry (Hartigan, 1982) in the original Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences uses the sense of cluster analysis discussed in Section 11.2. Modern usage is leaning to the other meaning (Ripley, 1997) of allocating future cases to one of g prespecified classes. Medical diagnosis is an archetypal classification problem in the modern sense. (The older statistical literature sometimes refers to this as allocation.)
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Venables, W.N., Ripley, B.D. (2002). Classification. In: Modern Applied Statistics with S. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21706-2_12
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