regression tree
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editNoun
editregression tree (plural regression trees)
- (data mining) A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods.
- 2000, Ivan H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining[1], page 70:
- Because statisticians use the term regression for the process of computing an expression that predicts a numeric quantity, decision trees with averaged numeric values at the leaves are called regression trees.
- A classification and regression tree.
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editSee also
edit- CART
- Decision tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Classification and regression tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia