Regression Trees

This Blog assumes that the reader is familiar with the concept of Decision Trees and Regression. If not, refer to the blogs below. Having read the above blogs or Having already being familiar with the appropriate topics, you hopefully understand what is a decision tree, by now ( The one we used for classification task). A regression tree is basically a decision tree that is used for the task of regression which can be used to predict continuous valued outputs instead of discrete outputs. In Decision Trees for Classification, we saw how the tree asks right questions at the right node in order to give accurate and efficient classifications.