Objective: To determine whether classification tree techniques used on survey data collected at enrollment from older adults in a Medicare HMO could predict the likelihood of an individual being in a ...

A decision tree is a flow chart created by a computer algorithm to make decisions or numeric predictions based on information in a digital data set. Decision trees can be used for both classification ...

Many scientific problems entail labeling data items with one of a given, finite set of classes based on features of the data items. For example, oncologists classify tumors as different known cancer ...