Decision trees are major components of finance, philosophy, and decision analysis in university classes. Yet, many students ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

Decision tree regression is a machine learning technique . To predict the output y for an input vector X, the tree structure encodes a set of if-then rules such as, "If the value of X at index [2] is ...