June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Content preview from 40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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Classifying records
Decision trees classifiers can be used to classify data points, such as in the following examples:
Mortgage applications: To train a binary classifier to determine whether an applicant is likely to default.
Customer segmentation: To categorize customers into high-worth, medium-worth, and low-worth customers so that marketing strategies can be customized for each category.
Medical diagnosis: To train a classifier that can categorize a benign or malignant growth.
Treatment-effectiveness analysis: To train a classifier that can flag patients that have reacted positively to a particular treatment.