Professional Documents
Culture Documents
B K=X
Examples
• Equipment or medical diagnosis
• Credit risk analysis
• Modeling calendar scheduling preferences
Converting Decision to Rules
IF ((A=‘Red’) ^( B< 4.5))
THEN K=Y
IF((A=‘Red’ ) ^ (B>=4.5))
THEN K=X
Etc..
The strengths of decision tree
• Decision trees :
• are Simple to understand and interpret.
– People are able to understand decision tree models after a brief
explanation.
• are able to generate understandable rules.
• requires little data preparation
– Other techniques often require data normalization, dummy variables
need to be created and blank values to be removed.
• perform classification without requiring much computation.
• possible to validate a model using statistical tests.
– makes it possible to account for the reliability of the model.
• are able to handle both continuous and categorical variables.
– Ex: relation rules can be used only with nominal variables while neural
networks can be used only with numerical variables.
• provide a clear indication of which fields are most important
for prediction or classification.
Weaknesses of decision tree
• http://dms.irb.hr/tutorial/tut_dtrees.php
• http://www.mindtools.com/dectree.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_l
earning
• http://www.answers.com/topic/decision-
tree