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 PrincipleA tree model whose leaves represent class labels and whose branches represent conjunctions of features that lead to those class labels. 1 Connections
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1. Decision tree learning - Wikipedia
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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.
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