A hierarchical tree that is used to make decisions in an if-then-else fashion. A type of supervised machine learning, a decision tree comprises decision nodes with two possible outcomes. See machine ...

The study of decision trees and optimisation techniques remains at the forefront of modern data science and machine learning. Decision trees, with their inherent interpretability and efficiency, are ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...