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 ...

Using a decision tree classifier from a machine learning library is often awkward because it usually must be customized and library decision trees have many complex supporting functions, says resident ...

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 ...