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* Ziv's lecture: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zivbj/classF14/DT.pdf Slides in pdf].
 
* Ziv's lecture: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zivbj/classF14/DT.pdf Slides in pdf].
* William's lecture: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/10-601/decision-trees.pptx Slides in Powerpoint].
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* William's lecture: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/10-601/decision-trees.pptx Slides in Powerpoint], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/10-601/decision-trees.pdf in PDF].
  
 
=== Readings ===
 
=== Readings ===

Revision as of 13:43, 17 September 2014

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014

Slides

Readings

  • Mitchell, Chapter 3.

What You Should Know Afterward

  • What a decision tree is, and how to classify an instance using a decision tree.
  • What the canonical top-down algorithm is for learning a decision tree.
    • What heuristics are used for choosing a decision-tree split.
    • What entropy is, and what information gain is.
  • What reduced-error pruning is, and why it might improve classification performance.
  • Some of the advantages and disadvantages of decision-tree learning in specific, and eager learning in general, compared to K-NN learning.