Oct. 31, 2023, 12:51 p.m. | Jagroop Singh

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Before we discuss Dummy Variable Trap, let's first go over what Dummy Variables are ?


As we all know, computers only understand 0's and 1's. So, what happens if we have data with categorical values, such as India and the United States?


Yes, the machine can understand that, but it will have an impact on the accuracy of our machine learning model. So why not convert that data into numerical data by numerically representing common values?


Thus,



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