Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

In the genetic study of complex traits, especially behavior related ones, such as smoking and alcoholism, usually several phenotypic measurements are obtained for the description of the complex trait, ...

Classification and regression tree (CART) methods are a class of data mining techniques which constitute an alternative approach to classical regression. CART methods are frequently used in ...

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 ...

A method for fitting piecewise proportional hazards models to censored survival data is described. Stratification is performed recursively, using a combination of statistical tests and residual ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...