| Article ID: | iaor2002512 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 127 |
| End Page Number: | 142 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Journal: | TOP |
| Authors: | Rio Arantza Munduate Del, Sevilla Francisco J. Cano, Prados Antonio Prez |
| Keywords: | decision trees |
The aim of this paper is to present a method for selecting the optimal tree among the possible trees that can be generated starting from a data set. Analysis of a quantity criterion is used through the linear combination of the quality measurements of the tree, namely, resubstitution error and linearity. The application of the method leads to a succession of optimal trees, in such a way, that an element of the succession is associated with each possible value of the linear combination's parameter α.