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Re: contentious in Decision Tree
Date: July 31, 2019 05:11AM
Let say that you want to build a decision tree using a purity measure such as GINI.
If you want to split using some ranges of values for some continuous attribute such as age > 80 in a decision tree, a simple way is to calculate the GINI measures for different split:
age > 80 / age <= 80
age > 75 / age <= 75
age > 70 / age <= 70
...
Then, you choose the best split. For example if age > 70 / age <= 70 allows to obtain the best GINI value, then you choose this.
HOpe this helps