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Decision Tree

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A predictive model shaped as a tree of yes-or-no questions about an input's features, ending in a leaf that gives a prediction; easy to interpret directly, and the building block of ensemble methods such as random forests.

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Core Principle
A tree model whose leaves represent class labels and whose branches represent conjunctions of features that lead to those class labels. 1
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1. Decision tree learning - Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    Tree models where the target variable can take a discrete set of values are called classification trees; in these tree structures, leaves represent class labels and branches represent conjunctions of features that lead to those class labels.
  • In Group: Machine Learning Models, Lead
    Decision tree learning is a supervised learning approach used in statistics, data mining and machine learning.
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