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Classification is one of the fundamental tasks in machine learning. The quality of data is important in con- structing any machine learning model with good prediction performance. Real-world data often suffer from noise which is usually referred to as errors, irregularities, and corruptions in a dataset. However, we have no control over the quality of data used in classification tasks. The presence of noise in a dataset poses three major negative consequences, viz. (i) a decrease in the classification accuracy (ii) an increase in the complexity of the induced classifier (iii) an increase in the training time. Therefore, it is important to systematically explore the effects of noise in classification performance. Even though there have been published studies on the effect of noise either for some particular learner or for some particular noise type, there is a lack of study where the impact of different noise on different learners has been investigated. In this work, we focus on both scenar- ios: various learners and various noise types and provide a detailed analysis of their effects on the prediction performance. We use five different classifiers (J48, Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine, k-Nearest Neigh- bor, Random Forest) and 10 benchmark datasets from the UCI machine learning repository and three publicly available image datasets. Our results can be used to guide the development of noise handling mechanisms.