Decision trees start with the decision to be made on the left side, marked by a square decision node. The diagram flows toward the right with lines of action branching out from the decision node ...

A hierarchical tree that is used to make decisions in an if-then-else fashion. A type of supervised machine learning, a decision tree comprises decision nodes with two possible outcomes.

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 ...