The StratifiedKFold class in the scikit-learn library's cross_validation module is used to generate stratified folds for cross-validation tasks. StratifiedKFold divides the dataset into k folds while preserving the class distribution in each fold. This ensures that each fold contains a proportional representation of the different classes present in the dataset. It is particularly useful when dealing with imbalanced datasets where some classes have significantly fewer samples than others. This class is commonly used in classification tasks to evaluate the performance of machine learning models across different subsets of the dataset.
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