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 ...

You can use decision trees to guide you in deciding among several alternatives. The decision-tree method allows you to approach the problem in a structured and systematic way to arrive at a logical ...

(CNN) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published six "decision trees" Thursday aimed at helping businesses, communities, schools, camps, daycares and mass transit decide whether it ...

A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF income < 28.0 AND education >= 14.0 THEN politicalParty = 2." Using a decision tree classifier ...

Decision tree analysis is a method of constructing a decision tree, which is a detailed representation of numerous potential solutions that can be utilized to address a specific problem to choose the ...

In last month’s article, we touched on the importance of probability in our daily lives. We shared brain teasers and non-intuitive facts that highlighted how an understanding of probability can help ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...