A decision tree is a flow chart created by a computer algorithm to make decisions or numeric predictions based on information in a digital data set. Decision trees can be used for both classification ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, but often don't work well with large ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...