Chapter 8
Decision Trees
An Example of Classification Trees
An Example of a Regression Tree
References
Exercises
Figure 8.1 A Framework for Multivariate Analysis
The decision tree is one of the most widely used techniques for describing and organizing multivariate data. As shown in Figure 8.1, a decision tree is one of the dependence techniques in which the dependent variable can be either discrete (the usual case) or continuous. Also, a decision tree is usually considered to be a data mining technique. One of its strengths is its ability to ...
