Homework 6

We would like to study how R's decision tree implementations find attributes for splitting.

Check any decision tree package in R and see how they select attributes at each node. We also would like to know how they handle numeric attributes.

You have used decision trees for the iris data. You may use this data set as an example to explain how they handle numeric attributes.

Write a short report (<= 2 pages in English).


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