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Joshua Starmer
@joshuastarmer
2 years
The other day, someone asked me why we use Entropy (or Gini) for decision trees instead of just the raw counts of each class. Good question! And my friend @rasbt (Sebastian Raschka) has an awesome answer: #BAM
Why are we growing decision trees via entropy instead of the classification error?

Before we get to the main question – the real interesting part – let’s take a look at some of the (classification) decision tree basics to make sure that we ...

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