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n. A visualization of a complex decision-making situation in which the possible decisions and their likely outcomes are organized in the form of a graph that resembles a tree.
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A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm.
Decision trees are commonly used in operations research, specifically in decision analysis, to help identify a strategy most likely to reach a goal, but are also a popular tool in machine learning.
Usage examples of "decision tree".
Well, Imagine a binary decision tree, where the option at each branch point is to go left or right.
The statement's truth or otherwise came a bad second in the decision tree.
For a moment he could see the possibilities before his brother, branching like an infinitely complex decision tree.
My data processing system has mimicked a colloid mind to short-circuit my decision tree.