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slug: /en/sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/categoricalinformationvalue
sidebar_position: 250
title: categoricalInformationValue
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Calculates the value of `(P(tag = 1) - P(tag = 0))(log(P(tag = 1)) - log(P(tag = 0)))` for each category.

``` sql
categoricalInformationValue(category1, category2, ..., tag)
```

The result indicates how a discrete (categorical) feature `[category1, category2, ...]` contribute to a learning model which predicting the value of `tag`.