A decision tree is a machine learning technique that can be used for binary classification or multi-class classification. A binary classification problem is one where the goal is to predict the value ...

Decision trees are a simple but powerful prediction method. Figure 1: A classification decision tree is built by partitioning the predictor variable to reduce class mixing at each split. Figure 2: ...

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 ...