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Negative Class

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The negative class is the class label representing the absence of the condition or outcome of interest in a binary classification task. For example, in spam detection, 'not spam' is often treated as the negative class.

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In binary classification, one class is termed positive and the other is termed negative. The positive class is the thing or event that the model is testing for and the negative class is the other possibility. For example: - The negative class in a medical test might be "not tumor." - The negative class in an email classification model might be "not spam." Contrast with positive class.

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