Quinlan: induction of decision trees

What changed

Described the ID3 approach to synthesizing decision trees from examples and examined extensions for noisy or incomplete information and a stated shortcoming of the basic procedure.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact 1986 Machine Learning paper. Earlier ID3 reports, CART, C4.5, random forests, boosting and later pruning or interpretability methods remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 1986 Machine Learning paper. Earlier ID3 reports, CART, C4.5, random forests, boosting and later pruning or interpretability methods remain separate.

Contributors

• J. Ross Quinlan · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Springer record for induction of decision trees
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