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: ...

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 ...

Several approaches can be taken to predict case membership in the classes of a dependent variable. Classification and regression trees (CART) analysis has been cited repeatedly as a powerful ...

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Balancing water quality standards while facilitating economic growth with uncertain factors in a complex system is challenging for policy makers. This case study analyses the fictional town of Fortuna ...