regression tree

noun

A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods.

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Meanings

nounregression tree (plural regression trees)

plural regression trees

  1. machine learningA 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. computerA classification and regression tree.
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