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Critical Features of Decision Trees


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Decision trees have justifiably become one of the most popular data mining tools. They are relatively easy to use, the results can usually be displayed in an easy to read flow chart, and their predictive accuracy can be good to excellent across a broad range of database types and structures. This document reviews some of key features of decision trees that any informed analyst should be thinking about when choosing this kind of data mining tool for important data analyses.