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How does Classification-Based Prediction work

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The model is trained on historical examples with known categories, learning patterns that let it assign the most likely category to new, unseen data.
Real-world example An insurance company uses classification based prediction to estimate whether a new claim is likely to be fraudulent or genuine.

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