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regression tree en · NOUN

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1. (qualifier:data mining) A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods.
   • Because statisticians use the term regression for the process of computing an expression that predicts a numeric quantity, decision trees with averaged numeric values at the leaves are called regression trees. 2000, Ivan H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining, page 70:
2. A classification and regression tree.

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