Exam Certified Machine Learning Associate topic 1 question 21 discussion

B. Target encoding involves replacing each category of a categorical variable with a statistic related to the target variable (like the mean of the target for that category).

would argue that the answer is b - Target encoding (also known as mean encoding) involves replacing each category in a categorical feature with the mean of the target variable for that category. This process is more complex and challenging to distribute efficiently because it requires calculating and applying the mean target value for each category.