A decision tree is a machine learning technique that can be used for binary classification or multi-class classification. A binary classification problem is one where the goal is to predict the value ...

Decision trees are a simple but powerful prediction method. Figure 1: A classification decision tree is built by partitioning the predictor variable to reduce class mixing at each split. Figure 2 ...

Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree. Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily ...