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Decision trees (also referred to as classification and regression trees) are the traditional building blocks of data mining and the classic machine learning algorithm. Since their development in the 1980s, decision trees have been the most widely deployed machine-learning based data mining model builder.
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Williams, G. (2011). Decision Trees. In: Data Mining with Rattle and R. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9890-3_11
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