Friday, March 7, 2014

Regression Trees

Here are the slides I use for my course about “Regression Trees”. Because this course comes after the one about “Decision Trees”, only the special features for the handling of a continuous target attribute are highlighted. The described algorithms correspond roughly to the AID and the CART approaches.

Keywords: machine learning, supervised methods, regression tree, aid, cart, continuous class attribute
Slides: regression trees
References:
L. Breiman, J. Friedman, R. Olshen and C. Stone, “Classification and Regression Trees”, Wadsworth Int. Group, 1984.
J. Morgan, J.A. Sonquist, "Problems in the Analysis of Survey Data and a Proposal", JASA, 58:415-435, 1963.