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regression trees

regression trees is the plural of regression tree.

Meaning of regression tree

Noun

regression tree (plural regression trees)

  1. (data mining) A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods.
    • Because statisticians use the term regression for the process of computing an expression that predicts a numeric quantity, decision trees with averaged numeric values at the leaves are called regression trees.2000, Ivan H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Data Mining, page 70
  2. A classification and regression tree.

Questions about regression trees

What is regression trees the plural of?
Regression trees is the plural of regression tree.

Words near regression trees in the dictionary

  1. regression
  2. regression testing
  3. regression to the mean
  4. regression toward the mean
  5. regression tree
  6. regression trees
  7. regressional
  8. regressionary
  9. regressionism
  10. regressionist
  11. regressionists

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