Classification vs. Prediction — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Classification and Prediction
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Definitions
Classification➦
The action or process of classifying something
The classification of disease according to symptoms
Prediction➦
A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about a future event. They are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge.
Classification➦
The act, process, or result of classifying.
Prediction➦
The act of predicting.
Classification➦
A category or class.
Prediction➦
Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
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Classification➦
(Biology) The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them; taxonomy.
Prediction➦
A statement of what will happen in the future.
Classification➦
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
Prediction➦
(statistics) A probability estimation based on statistical methods.
Classification➦
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
Prediction➦
The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
The predictions of cold and long winters.
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Classification➦
The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Prediction➦
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Classification➦
A group of people or things arranged by class or category
Prediction➦
A statement made about the future
Classification➦
The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Classification➦
Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
