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Published inMar 2017
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Dr. Param Jeet
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Dr. Param Jeet is a Ph.D. in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute in Madras (IITM), India. Dr. Param Jeet has a couple of mathematical research papers published in various international journals. Dr. Param Jeet has been into the analytics industry for the last few years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as a data scientist.
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Prashant Vats is a masters in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute, IIT Mumbai. Prashant has been into analytics industry for more than 10 years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as data scientist across several domain.
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Decision tree


Tree-based learning algorithms are one of the best supervised learning methods. They generally have stability over results, and great accuracy and generalization capacity to the out-sample dataset. They can map linear and nonlinear relationships quite well. It is generally represented in the form of a tree of variables and its results. The nodes in a tree are variables and end values are decision rules. I am going to use the package party to implement a decision tree. This package first need to be installed and loaded into the workspace using the following commands:

>install.packages("party")
>library(party)

The ctree() function is the function to fit the decision tree and it requires a formula and data as mandatory parameters and it has a few more optional variables. The normalized in-sample and normalized out-sample data does not have labels in the data so we have to merge labels in the data.

The following commands bind labels into the normalized in-sample and normalized...

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Dr. Param Jeet

Dr. Param Jeet is a Ph.D. in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute in Madras (IITM), India. Dr. Param Jeet has a couple of mathematical research papers published in various international journals. Dr. Param Jeet has been into the analytics industry for the last few years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as a data scientist.
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PRASHANT VATS

Prashant Vats is a masters in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute, IIT Mumbai. Prashant has been into analytics industry for more than 10 years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as data scientist across several domain.
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