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 ...

In business, many decisions must be taken seriously because they have wide-reaching implications for the company, its employees, its customers or the public. For these decisions, it’s essential for ...

Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Arthur Pinkasovitch, CFA, has worked 5+ years as a financial analyst. He is an associate director at ATB Financial. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Many scientific problems entail labeling data items with one of a given, finite set of classes based on features of the data items. For example, oncologists classify tumors as different known cancer ...