A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Data mining massive geological databases is a leading edge statistical technique useful in oil and gas exploration. Billions of dollars of potential profit can be generated from gas well data analysis ...

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 ...