Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
A supervised learning model composed of a set of conditions and leaves organized hierarchically. For example, the following is a decision tree:
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A marketing analytics team uses a decision tree as an interpretable model so campaign managers can read each branch as a customer rule.
A pricing team uses a shallow decision tree to derive a small set of policy rules from a larger boosted-tree model.
A risk team uses a decision tree as the front-end triage step in its application flow because each split is easy for an underwriter to audit.
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