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Re-organized the documentation, added some real simple examples for the definitions of multiclass and multilabel classification.

Multilabel learning with OvR
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Multilabel learning
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:class:`OneVsRestClassifier` also supports multilabel classification.
To use this feature, feed the classifier a list of tuples containing
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You can use also a binary indicator format.

I think that a small example would be nice which would basically show how to use that estimator with either of list of tuple or binary indicator format.

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arjoly commented Jul 24, 2013

Could you add a pointer to LabelBinarizer?

@@ -7,23 +7,34 @@ Multiclass and multilabel algorithms

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.multiclass

This module implements multiclass and multilabel learning algorithms:
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I think it say somewhere very high up that you don't need this meta-estimators to do multi-class classification as all classifiers have build-in multiclass support

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Most estimators, I believe.

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all. without exception. if there is an exception, it should be listed below as not supporting multiclass imho.

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arjoly commented Jul 25, 2013

@schwarty do you intend to finish this before the release?

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@schwarty : we are planning to release during the week end. It would be good if you could address the comments.

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please push so we can review your changes :)

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It should be (almost) ready to merge.

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@schwarty : you should push your changes: we want to merge this guy :)

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arjoly commented Jul 27, 2013

Close in favor of #2269.

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