Chunk #45 — The Methods — How Do Classification and Regression Trees Work? — Prediction and Interpretation of Classification and Regression Trees

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An introduction to recursive partitioning: rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests.

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While this kind of “asymmetric” interaction is very common in classification trees, it is extremely unlikely to actually discover a symmetric interaction pattern as that in Figure 4 (right) or even a main effect pattern as that in Figure 4 (left) in real data.