Decisions can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling pros and cons in your head. A classic list might seem helpful, but it often falls short when the stakes are high, or the factors are ...

A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF income < 28.0 AND education >= 14.0 THEN politicalParty = 2." Using a decision tree classifier ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...