Introduction to Decision Trees

The uses of decision tree models are given below:

• They are used for both classification and regression (CART).

• They answer sequential questions and send us down a specific tree route to find the outcomes class.

• They behave like “if this, then that” conditions ultimately yield a particular result.

Context

Let’s say someone wants to practice soccer. Before they decide to go out, they have a few questions about the weather.

As the decision table goes on, we can visualize whether or not to play based on the weather.

The decision tree above has the following features:

• Root node: The starting point of the tree—for example, "Outlook".

• Branches: Arrow lines connecting nodes, showing the flow from question to answer segments of the trees that connect the nodes.

• Leaf node: ...