Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...

A decision tree can help you make tough choices between different paths and outcomes, but only if you evaluate the model correctly. Decision trees are graphic models of possible decisions and all ...

In last month’s article, we touched on the importance of probability in our daily lives. We shared brain teasers and non-intuitive facts that highlighted how an understanding of probability can help ...

For example, you might want to predict the sex of a person (male or female) based on their age, state where they live, income and political leaning. There are many other techniques for binary ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression using the C# language. Unlike most implementations, this one does not use recursion ...