Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
In an axis-aligned condition, the value that a feature is being compared against. For example, 75 is the threshold value in the following condition:
grade >= 75
This form of the term threshold is different than classification threshold.
See Exact splitter for binary classification with numerical features in the Decision Forests course for more information.
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A risk modeling team logs the threshold of every split in its decision tree so reviewers can audit each branch.
A churn team uses threshold tuning per split in its decision-tree builder to control granularity of business rules.
A pricing team inspects thresholds in its segmentation tree to confirm splits map to operationally meaningful values.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License