Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
In a decision tree, a condition that involves only a single feature. For example, if area is a feature, then the following is an axis-aligned condition:
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A telco churn team prefers axis-aligned conditions in its decision tree because business reviewers can read each split as a single feature threshold.
A risk modeling team trains a gradient boosted tree with axis-aligned conditions so each split is easy to translate into a policy rule.
A pricing analytics team uses axis-aligned conditions in its segmentation tree so the marketing team can describe each segment in plain language.
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