November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 42m
English
Another approach is to construct a set of regression models, each on its own part of the data. The following diagram shows the main difference between a regression model and a regression tree. A regression model constructs a single model that best fits all of the data. A regression tree, on the other hand, constructs a set of regression models, each modeling a part of the data, as shown on the right-hand side. Compared to the regression model, the regression tree can better fit the data, but the function is a piece-wise linear plot, with jumps between modeled regions, as seen in the following diagram:

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