Data classification in statistics

Statistical data classification is defined by some data scientists or statisticians as:

The division of data into meaningful categories for analysis.

The database developer reading this should identify with that:

In data science and statistics, classification is defined as identifying to which categories (sometimes called sub-populations) a new observation should be included, on the basis of a training set of data containing observations (or instances) whose category membership has been validated.

Data scientists routinely apply statistical formulas to data automatically, allowing for processing big data in ...

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