What are the advantages of logistic regression over decision trees? This question was originally answered on Quora by Claudia Perlich.

Logistic regression is a powerful technique for fitting models to data with a binary response variable, but the models are difficult to interpret if collinearity, nonlinearity, or interactions are ...

David Muchlinski, David Siroky, Jingrui He, Matthew Kocher, Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data, Political Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1 ...

Regression trees facilitated insights into the significance of uncertain factors and decision variables combinations on system performance. Additionally, they create highly interpretable framework ...