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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

by Dejan Sarka, Miloš Radivojević, William Durkin
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Classifying and predicting with decision trees

Decision trees are one of the most frequently used data mining algorithms. The algorithm is not very complex, yet it gives very good results in many cases. In addition, you can easily understand the result. You use decision trees for classification and prediction. Typical usage scenarios include:

  • Predicting which customers will leave
  • Targeting the audience for mailings and promotional campaigns
  • Explaining reasons for a decision

Decision trees are a directed technique. Your target variable is the one that holds information about a particular decision, divided into a few discrete and broad categories (yes/no; liked/partially liked/disliked, and so on). You are trying to explain this decision ...

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