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 ...

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

Objective: To determine whether classification tree techniques used on survey data collected at enrollment from older adults in a Medicare HMO could predict the likelihood of an individual being in a ...