The document discusses various issues in decision tree learning, particularly focusing on overfitting, handling continuous-valued attributes, and managing missing attribute values. It outlines strategies to avoid overfitting, such as early stopping and post-pruning, and introduces alternative measures for selecting attributes like gain ratio. Additionally, it addresses the importance of considering attribute costs in decision-making processes within decision trees.
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issues in decision trees
The document discusses various issues in decision tree learning, particularly focusing on overfitting, handling continuous-valued attributes, and managing missing attribute values. It outlines strategies to avoid overfitting, such as early stopping and post-pruning, and introduces alternative measures for selecting attributes like gain ratio. Additionally, it addresses the importance of considering attribute costs in decision-making processes within decision trees.