Practical Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Bots, and Agent Solutions Using C#

© Arnaldo Pérez Castaño 2018

Arnaldo Pérez CastañoPractical Artificial Intelligencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3357-3_10

10. Decision Trees

Arnaldo Pérez Castaño¹ 

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Havana, Cuba

 

Data mining is the process of discovering and extracting meaningful, useful information (patterns) from large data sets. Numerous data-mining techniques are inherited from AI, and particularly from machine learning and its subfield of supervised learning; among these techniques lies the classification technique.

Classification is a frequent task in data mining that solves a wide range of real-world problems, such as fraud, spam mail checking, credit scoring, bankruptcy prediction, medical diagnosis, pattern recognition, multimedia classification, and so on. ...