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Question: In the chapter, we noted that attributes with many different possible values can cause problems with the gain measure. Such attributes tend to split the examples into numerous small classes or even singleton classes, thereby appearing to be highly relevant according to the gain measure. The gain ratio criterion selects attributes according to the ratio between their gain and their intrinsic information content-that is, the amount of information contained in the answer to the question, "What is the value of this attribute?" The gain ratio criterion therefore tries to measure how efficiently an attribute provides information on the correct classification of an example. Write a mathematical expression for the information content of an attribute, and implement the gain ratio criterion in DECISION-TREE-LEARNING.