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classification

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The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type.

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Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Categorization (e.g., "confidential," "sensitive," or "public") of the information processed by the service provider on behalf of the receiver company.

Artificial Inelligence: A Modern Approach

When the output is one of a finite set of values (such as sunny, cloudy or rainy), the learning problem is called classification, and is called Boolean or binary classification if there are only two values.

Notes on Measurement

task of assigning collected data to target categories or classes.

Wordset Dictionary

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Wordset Dictionary

restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

Wordset Dictionary

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Wordset Dictionary

a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

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