A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF income < 28.0 AND education >= 14.0 THEN politicalParty = 2." Using a decision tree classifier ...

Malware incidents cost organizations and industries billions of dollars every year. In a 2012 worldwide survey on the financial impacts of malware, more than 2,600 business leaders and IT security ...

This article considers a measure of variable importance frequently used in variable-selection methods based on decision trees and tree-based ensemble models. These models include CART, random forests, ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...