A common approach to split selection in classification trees is to search through all possible splits generated by predictor variables. A splitting criterion is then used to evalu...
Tree models are valuable tools for predictive modeling and data mining. Traditional tree-growing methodologies such as CART are known to suffer from problems including greediness,...
The greedy search approach to variable selection in regression trees with constant fits is considered. At each node, the method usually compares the maximally selected statistic a...
Most decision tree classifiers are designed to keep class histograms for single attributes, and to select a particular attribute for the next split using said histograms. In this ...