Chunk #23 — The Methods — How Do Classification and Regression Trees Work?

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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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In contrast to this, in recursive partitioning only those interactions that are actually used in the tree are generated during the fitting process. The issue of including main effects and interactions in recursive partitioning is discussed in more detail below.