1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tree-based Methods
Authors : W. N. Venables, B. D. Ripley
Published in: Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The use of tree-based models will be relatively unfamiliar to statisticians, although researchers in other fields have found trees to be an attractive way to express knowledge and aid decision-making. Keys such as Figure 13.1 are common in botany and in medical decision-making, and provide a way to encapsulate and structure the knowledge of experts to be used by less-experienced users. Notice how this tree uses both categorical variables and splits on continuous variables.