Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner

Chapter 6: The Integration of Decision Trees with Other Data Mining Approaches

Introduction

Decision Trees in Stratified Regression

Time-Ordered Data

Decision Trees in Forecasting Applications

Decision Trees in Variable Selection

Decision Tree Results

Interactions

Cross-Contributions of Decision Trees and Other Approaches

Decision Trees in Analytical Model Development

The Use of Decision Trees in Rule Induction

Iterative Removal of Observations

Conclusion

Business Intelligence

Data Mining

Introduction

So far most of the discussion on decision trees has been in the area of their direct utility as descriptive and predictive tools. This chapter shows how decision trees can also be used to provide software support when integrating decision trees ...