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Decision tree

A decision tree is a decision support recursive partitioning structure that uses a tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm that only contains conditional control statements.

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Optimizing a decision tree

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Evaluating a decision tree

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Decision-tree building blocks

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Decision-tree building blocks

Association rule induction

Advantages and disadvantages

Optimizing a decision tree

Evaluating a decision tree

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Decision tree

Nodes46
Edges45
Triples80
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.043478
Components1

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Decision tree

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see also · 17
Decision tree → Algorithm, Application, Behavior, Boolean, Data, Ensemble, Explicit, List, Mathematical, Method, Model, Multiple-criteria, Random, Sequence, Table, Tree-based, Valuing
related to Advantages and disadvantages · 11
Decision tree → Among, Are, Can, Decision, Have, Help, If, Important, People, The, Use
related to Increasing the number of levels of the tree · 11
Decision tree → Cancer, For, If, In, Non-Cancer, Occasionally, Possible, The, There, To, When
related to Association rule induction · 7
Decision tree → An, ASSISTANT, CART, CLS, Decision, ID3/4/5, Several
related to Evaluating a decision tree · 7
Decision tree → All, Also, For, It, Let, The, True
related to Decision rules · 4
Decision tree → Decision, In, The, They
related to Other techniques · 4
Decision tree → One, The, There, This
related to The choice of node-splitting functions · 4
Decision tree → For, In, One, The
related to Decision tree using flowchart symbols · 3
Decision tree → Commonly, Note, Proceed
related to Decision-tree elements · 3
Decision tree → Drawn, So, Traditionally

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