Evolutionary algorithms have emerged as a robust alternative to traditional greedy approaches for decision tree induction. By mimicking the natural selection process, these algorithms iterate over a ...

Decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets that have a relatively simple underlying structure, and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of ...

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A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF income < 28.0 AND education >= 14.0 THEN politicalParty = 2." Using a decision tree classifier ...