The two main downsides to decision trees are that they often don't work well with large datasets, and they are highly susceptible to model overfitting. When tackling a binary classification problem, ...

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Many scientific problems entail labeling data items with one of a given, finite set of classes based on features of the data items. For example, oncologists classify tumors as different known cancer ...