Satisfying the basic requirements of accuracy and understandability of a classifier, decision tree classifiers have become very popular. Instead of constructing the decision tree ...
Mihael Ankerst, Christian Elsen, Martin Ester, Han...
Decision trees are commonly used for classification. We propose to use decision trees not just for classification but also for the wider purpose of knowledge discovery, because vi...
Classification is an important data mining problem. Given a training database of records, each tagged with a class label, the goal of classification is to build a concise model ...
Johannes Gehrke, Venkatesh Ganti, Raghu Ramakrishn...
—Much of previous attention on decision trees focuses on the splitting criteria and optimization of tree sizes. The dilemma between overfitting and achieving maximum accuracy is ...