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| ___ is one of the most powerful directed data mining techniques |
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| Define what a decision tree is |
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| hierarchical collection of rules that describes how to divide a large collection of records into successively smaller groups of records |
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| contains all the training data used to grow the tree |
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| nodes that ultimately get used are at the ends of their branches, with no children |
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| When using a decision tree for churn, it describes ___ |
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| who is doing the churning and which of two variants of churn is more common |
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| Decision trees do a reasonable job of selecting a small number of ___ |
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| fairly independent variables |
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| With decision tree scoring, the ___ of the scores is more important than the actual scores themselves |
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