Decision tree modeling using R

• Published in: Annals of translational medicine Vol. 4; no. 15; p. 275
• Main Author: Zhang, Zhongheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China AME Publishing Company 01.08.2016
• Subjects: Big-data Clinical Trial Column; conditional inference; random forests; R; Machine learning; decision trees; recursive partitioning

In machine learning field, decision tree learner is powerful and easy to interpret. It employs recursive binary partitioning algorithm that splits the sample in partitioning variable with the strongest association with the response variable. The process continues until some stopping criteria are met...