classification

Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes. It may also refer to a process which brings together like things and separates unlike things. Business, organizations, and economics Classification of customers, for marketing (as in Master data management) or for profitability (e.g. by Activity-based costing) Classified information, as in legal or government documentation Job classification, as in job analysis Standard Industrial Classification, economic activities Mathematics Attribute-value system, a basic knowledge representation framework Classification theorems in mathematics Mathematical classification, grouping mathematical objects based on a property that all those objects share Statistical classification, identifying to which of a set of categories a new observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data Media Classification (literature), a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles Decimal classification, decimal classification systems Document classification, a problem in library science, information science and computer science Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people Library classification, a system of coding, assorting and organizing library materials according to their subject Image classification in computer vision Motion picture rating system, for film classification