Classification and Regression Trees (CART) Algorithm

Classification and Regression Trees (CART) is only a modern term for what are otherwise known as Decision Trees. Decision Trees have been around for a very long time and are important for predictive modelling in Machine Learning.

As the name suggests, these trees are used for classification and prediction problems. This is an introductionary post about the fundamentals of such decision trees, that serve the basis for other modern classifiers such as Random Forest.

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