regression tree

regression tree

English

Noun

regression tree (plural regression trees)

1. (data mining) A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods.
   • 2000, Ivan H. Witten & Eibe Frank, Data Mining‎, page 70:

     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.

2. A classification and regression tree.

Hypernyms

• tree

See also

• CART
• Decision tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Classification and regression tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia