Finding the Root - Jason M. Pittman

You may have thought we were done with decisions trees. I am done with respect to discussing general approaches and types of problems. You could say that we're moving from a view of the forest, to finding the root for our tree. However, there is a bit more to explore when it comes to the underlying mathematical functions associated with navigating data to construct our trees. In our last discussion, I introduced the concept of a cost function and gave a specific example in the Gini coefficient.