A decision tree can help you make tough choices between different paths and outcomes, but only if you evaluate the model correctly. Decision trees are graphic models of possible decisions and all ...

For example, you might want to predict the sex of a person (male or female) based on their age, state where they live, income and political leaning. There are many other techniques for binary ...

One of the most important components of decision making is process organization. Using a decision tree to choose between different courses of action presents possible outcomes in graphic form, making ...

The inherent flaw in this approach is that the outcomes are expressed as expected, i.e., average, values, often based on subjective probabilities. The good news is that with recent advances in data ...

Leading psoriasis investigators have developed two diagnostic decision trees to help clinicians make optimal determinations about diagnostic and treatment courses. The review appears in the ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, but often don't work well with large ...