Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...

Decision trees are major components of finance, philosophy, and decision analysis in university classes. Yet, many students ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression using the C# language. Unlike most implementations, this one does not use recursion ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...