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<h1><span class="section-number">9. </span>Decision trees, overarching aims<a class="headerlink" href="#decision-trees-overarching-aims" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>We start here with the most basic algorithm, the so-called decision
tree. With this basic algorithm we can in turn build more complex
networks, spanning from homogeneous and heterogenous forests (bagging,
random forests and more) to one of the most popular supervised
algorithms nowadays, the extreme gradient boosting, or just
XGBoost. But let us start with the simplest possible ingredient.</p>
<p>Decision trees are supervised learning algorithms used for both,
classification and regression tasks.</p>
<p>The main idea of decision trees
is to find those descriptive features which contain the most
<strong>information</strong> regarding the target feature and then split the dataset
along the values of these features such that the target feature values
for the resulting underlying datasets are as pure as possible.</p>
<p>The descriptive features which reproduce best the target/output features are normally said
to be the most informative ones. The process of finding the <strong>most
informative</strong> feature is done until we accomplish a stopping criteria
where we then finally end up in so called <strong>leaf nodes</strong>.</p>
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<h2><span class="section-number">9.1. </span>Basics of a tree<a class="headerlink" href="#basics-of-a-tree" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A decision tree is typically divided into a <strong>root node</strong>, the <strong>interior nodes</strong>,
and the final <strong>leaf nodes</strong> or just <strong>leaves</strong>. These entities are then connected by so-called <strong>branches</strong>.</p>
<p>The leaf nodes
contain the predictions we will make for new query instances presented
to our trained model. This is possible since the model has
learned the underlying structure of the training data and hence can,
given some assumptions, make predictions about the target feature value
(class) of unseen query instances.</p>
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<h2><span class="section-number">9.2. </span>General Features<a class="headerlink" href="#general-features" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The overarching approach to decision trees is a top-down approach.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>A leaf provides the classification of a given instance.</p></li>
<li><p>A node specifies a test of some attribute of the instance.</p></li>
<li><p>A branch corresponds to a possible values of an attribute.</p></li>
<li><p>An instance is classified by starting at the root node of the tree, testing the attribute specified by this node, then moving down the tree branch corresponding to the value of the attribute in the given example.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>This process is then repeated for the subtree rooted at the new
node.</p>
<p>In simplified terms, the process of training a decision tree and
predicting the target features of query instances is as follows:</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Present a dataset containing of a number of training instances characterized by a number of descriptive features and a target feature</p></li>
<li><p>Train the decision tree model by continuously splitting the target feature along the values of the descriptive features using a measure of information gain during the training process</p></li>
<li><p>Grow the tree until we accomplish a stopping criteria create leaf nodes which represent the <em>predictions</em> we want to make for new query instances</p></li>
<li><p>Show query instances to the tree and run down the tree until we arrive at leaf nodes</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Then we are essentially done!</p>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.preprocessing</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">PolynomialFeatures</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.linear_model</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">LinearRegression</span>
<span class="n">steps</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">250</span>
<span class="n">distance</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">x</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="k">while</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">steps</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">distance</span><span class="o">+=</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distance</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+=</span><span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;green&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;Random Walk Data&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asarray</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asarray</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">steps_list</span><span class="p">[:,</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">newaxis</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="c1">#Polynomial fits</span>
<span class="c1">#Degree 2</span>
<span class="n">poly_features</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">PolynomialFeatures</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">degree</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">include_bias</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_poly</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">poly_features</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit_transform</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">lin_reg</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">LinearRegression</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">poly_fit</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lin_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_poly</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">b</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lin_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">coef_</span>
<span class="n">c</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lin_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">intercept_</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;2nd degree coefficients:&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;zero power: &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">c</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;first power: &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;second power: &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">z</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">arange</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">steps</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">.01</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">z_mod</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">z</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">z</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">c</span>
<span class="n">fit_mod</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">c</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">z</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">z_mod</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;r&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;2nd Degree Fit&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Polynomial Regression&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Steps&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Distance&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">#Degree 10</span>
<span class="n">poly_features10</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">PolynomialFeatures</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">degree</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">include_bias</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_poly10</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">poly_features10</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit_transform</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">poly_fit10</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lin_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_poly10</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_plot</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">poly_fit10</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_poly10</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_plot</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;black&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;10th Degree Fit&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1">#Decision Tree Regression</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span>
<span class="n">regr_1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">regr_2</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">regr_3</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">regr_1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">regr_2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">regr_3</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_test</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">arange</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">steps</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.01</span><span class="p">)[:,</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">newaxis</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">y_1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">regr_1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">regr_2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_3</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">regr_3</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Plot the results</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">scatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distance_list</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">s</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">2.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">c</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;black&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;data&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;red&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;max_depth=2&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;green&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;max_depth=5&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;m&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;max_depth=7&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Data&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Darget&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Decision Tree Regression&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="output stream highlight-myst-ansi notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>2nd degree coefficients:
zero power: -5.456418966187335
first power: 0.07099747918547346
second power: -0.00028369228101198006
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<div class="section" id="building-a-tree-regression">
<h2><span class="section-number">9.3. </span>Building a tree, regression<a class="headerlink" href="#building-a-tree-regression" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>There are mainly two steps</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>We split the predictor space (the set of possible values <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_1,x_2,\dots, x_p\)</span>) into <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(J\)</span> distinct and non-non-overlapping regions, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_1,R_2,\dots,R_J\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p>For every observation that falls into the region <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_j\)</span> , we make the same prediction, which is simply the mean of the response values for the training observations in <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_j\)</span>.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>How do we construct the regions <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_1,\dots,R_J\)</span>? In theory, the
regions could have any shape. However, we choose to divide the
predictor space into high-dimensional rectangles, or boxes, for
simplicity and for ease of interpretation of the resulting predictive
model. The goal is to find boxes <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_1,\dots,R_J\)</span> that minimize the
MSE, given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\sum_{j=1}^J\sum_{i\in R_j}(y_i-\overline{y}_{R_j})^2,
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\overline{y}_{R_j}\)</span> is the mean response for the training observations
within box <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(j\)</span>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it is computationally infeasible to consider every
possible partition of the feature space into <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(J\)</span> boxes. The common
strategy is to take a top-down approach</p>
<p>The approach is top-down because it begins at the top of the tree (all
observations belong to a single region) and then successively splits
the predictor space; each split is indicated via two new branches
further down on the tree. It is greedy because at each step of the
tree-building process, the best split is made at that particular step,
rather than looking ahead and picking a split that will lead to a
better tree in some future step.</p>
<div class="section" id="making-a-tree">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.3.1. </span>Making a tree<a class="headerlink" href="#making-a-tree" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>In order to implement the recursive binary splitting we start by selecting
the predictor <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_j\)</span> and a cutpoint <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span> that splits the predictor space into two regions <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_1\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_2\)</span></p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\left\{X\vert x_j &lt; s\right\},
\]</div>
<p>and</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\left\{X\vert x_j \geq s\right\},
\]</div>
<p>so that we obtain the lowest MSE, that is</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\sum_{i:x_i\in R_j}(y_i-\overline{y}_{R_1})^2+\sum_{i:x_i\in R_2}(y_i-\overline{y}_{R_2})^2,
\]</div>
<p>which we want to minimize by considering all predictors
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_p\)</span>. We consider also all possible values of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span> for
each predictor. These values could be determined by randomly assigned
numbers or by starting at the midpoint and then proceed till we find
an optimal value.</p>
<p>For any <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(j\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span>, we define the pair of half-planes where
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\overline{y}_{R_1}\)</span> is the mean response for the training
observations in <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_1(j,s)\)</span>, and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\overline{y}_{R_2}\)</span> is the mean
response for the training observations in <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_2(j,s)\)</span>.</p>
<p>Finding the values of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(j\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span> that minimize the above equation can be
done quite quickly, especially when the number of features <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(p\)</span> is not
too large.</p>
<p>Next, we repeat the process, looking
for the best predictor and best cutpoint in order to split the data
further so as to minimize the MSE within each of the resulting
regions. However, this time, instead of splitting the entire predictor
space, we split one of the two previously identified regions. We now
have three regions. Again, we look to split one of these three regions
further, so as to minimize the MSE. The process continues until a
stopping criterion is reached; for instance, we may continue until no
region contains more than five observations.</p>
<p>The above procedure is rather straightforward, but leads often to
overfitting and unnecessarily large and complicated trees. The basic
idea is to grow a large tree <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(T_0\)</span> and then prune it back in order to
obtain a subtree. A smaller tree with fewer splits (fewer regions) can
lead to smaller variance and better interpretation at the cost of a
little more bias.</p>
<p>The so-called Cost complexity pruning algorithm gives us a
way to do just this. Rather than considering every possible subtree,
we consider a sequence of trees indexed by a nonnegative tuning
parameter <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>.</p>
<p>Read more at the following <a class="reference external" href="https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/tree/plot_cost_complexity_pruning.html#sphx-glr-auto-examples-tree-plot-cost-complexity-pruning-py">Scikit-Learn link on pruning</a>.</p>
<p>For each value of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> there corresponds a subtree <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(T \in T_0\)</span> such that</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\sum_{m=1}^{\overline{T}}\sum_{i:x_i\in R_m}(y_i-\overline{y}_{R_m})^2+\alpha\overline{T},
\]</div>
<p>is as small as possible. Here <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\overline{T}\)</span> is
the number of terminal nodes of the tree <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(T\)</span> , <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_m\)</span> is the
rectangle (i.e. the subset of predictor space) corresponding to the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(m\)</span>-th terminal node.</p>
<p>The tuning parameter <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> controls a trade-off between the subtrees
complexity and its fit to the training data. When <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha = 0\)</span>, then the
subtree <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(T\)</span> will simply equal <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(T_0\)</span>,
because then the above equation just measures the
training error.
However, as <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> increases, there is a price to pay for
having a tree with many terminal nodes. The above equation will
tend to be minimized for a smaller subtree.</p>
<p>It turns out that as we increase <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> from zero
branches get pruned from the tree in a nested and predictable fashion,
so obtaining the whole sequence of subtrees as a function of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> is
easy. We can select a value of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> using a validation set or using
cross-validation. We then return to the full data set and obtain the
subtree corresponding to <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="schematic-regression-procedure">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.3.2. </span>Schematic Regression Procedure<a class="headerlink" href="#schematic-regression-procedure" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>Building a Regression Tree</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Use recursive binary splitting to grow a large tree on the training data, stopping only when each terminal node has fewer than some minimum number of observations.</p></li>
<li><p>Apply cost complexity pruning to the large tree in order to obtain a sequence of best subtrees, as a function of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p>Use for example <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(K\)</span>-fold cross-validation to choose <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>. Divide the training observations into <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(K\)</span> folds. For each <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k=1,2,\dots,K\)</span> we:</p></li>
</ol>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>repeat steps 1 and 2 on all but the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span>-th fold of the training data.</p></li>
<li><p>Then we valuate the mean squared prediction error on the data in the left-out <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span>-th fold, as a function of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p>Finally we average the results for each value of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>, and pick <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span> to minimize the average error.</p></li>
</ul>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Return the subtree from Step 2 that corresponds to the chosen value of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha\)</span>.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>!eblock</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="a-classification-tree">
<h2><span class="section-number">9.4. </span>A Classification Tree<a class="headerlink" href="#a-classification-tree" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A classification tree is very similar to a regression tree, except
that it is used to predict a qualitative response rather than a
quantitative one. Recall that for a regression tree, the predicted
response for an observation is given by the mean response of the
training observations that belong to the same terminal node. In
contrast, for a classification tree, we predict that each observation
belongs to the most commonly occurring class of training observations
in the region to which it belongs. In interpreting the results of a
classification tree, we are often interested not only in the class
prediction corresponding to a particular terminal node region, but
also in the class proportions among the training observations that
fall into that region.</p>
<p>The task of growing a
classification tree is quite similar to the task of growing a
regression tree. Just as in the regression setting, we use recursive
binary splitting to grow a classification tree. However, in the
classification setting, the MSE cannot be used as a criterion for making
the binary splits. A natural alternative to MSE is the <strong>classification
error rate</strong>. Since we plan to assign an observation in a given region
to the most commonly occurring error rate class of training
observations in that region, the classification error rate is simply
the fraction of the training observations in that region that do not
belong to the most common class.</p>
<p>When building a classification tree, either the Gini index or the
entropy are typically used to evaluate the quality of a particular
split, since these two approaches are more sensitive to node purity
than is the classification error rate.</p>
<p>If our targets are the outcome of a classification process that takes
for example <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k=1,2,\dots,K\)</span> values, the only thing we need to think of
is to set up the splitting criteria for each node.</p>
<p>We define a PDF <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(p_{mk}\)</span> that represents the number of observations of
a class <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span> in a region <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_m\)</span> with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(N_m\)</span> observations. We represent
this likelihood function in terms of the proportion <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(I(y_i=k)\)</span> of
observations of this class in the region <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R_m\)</span> as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
p_{mk} = \frac{1}{N_m}\sum_{x_i\in R_m}I(y_i=k).
\]</div>
<p>We let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(p_{mk}\)</span> represent the majority class of observations in region
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(m\)</span>. The three most common ways of splitting a node are given by</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Misclassification error</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
p_{mk} = \frac{1}{N_m}\sum_{x_i\in R_m}I(y_i\ne k) = 1-p_{mk}.
\]</div>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Gini index <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g\)</span></p></li>
</ul>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
g = \sum_{k=1}^K p_{mk}(1-p_{mk}).
\]</div>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Information entropy or just entropy <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span></p></li>
</ul>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
s = -\sum_{k=1}^K p_{mk}\log{p_{mk}}.
\]</div>
<div class="section" id="visualizing-the-tree-classification">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.4.1. </span>Visualizing the Tree, Classification<a class="headerlink" href="#visualizing-the-tree-classification" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.datasets</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">load_breast_cancer</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.model_selection</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.metrics</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">confusion_matrix</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">export_graphviz</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">IPython.display</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Image</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pydot</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">graph_from_dot_data</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pandas</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">pd</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="n">cancer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">load_breast_cancer</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DataFrame</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">columns</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feature_names</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Categorical</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">from_codes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">target</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">target_names</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_dummies</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_test</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">export_graphviz</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">out_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;DataFiles/cancer.dot&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">feature_names</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">feature_names</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">class_names</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">target_names</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">rounded</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">filled</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">cmd</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;dot -Tpng DataFiles/cancer.dot -o DataFiles/cancer.png&#39;</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">system</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="p">)</span>
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0 17.99 10.38 122.80 1001.0 0.11840
1 20.57 17.77 132.90 1326.0 0.08474
2 19.69 21.25 130.00 1203.0 0.10960
3 11.42 20.38 77.58 386.1 0.14250
4 20.29 14.34 135.10 1297.0 0.10030
.. ... ... ... ... ...
564 21.56 22.39 142.00 1479.0 0.11100
565 20.13 28.25 131.20 1261.0 0.09780
566 16.60 28.08 108.30 858.1 0.08455
567 20.60 29.33 140.10 1265.0 0.11780
568 7.76 24.54 47.92 181.0 0.05263
mean compactness mean concavity mean concave points mean symmetry \
0 0.27760 0.30010 0.14710 0.2419
1 0.07864 0.08690 0.07017 0.1812
2 0.15990 0.19740 0.12790 0.2069
3 0.28390 0.24140 0.10520 0.2597
4 0.13280 0.19800 0.10430 0.1809
.. ... ... ... ...
564 0.11590 0.24390 0.13890 0.1726
565 0.10340 0.14400 0.09791 0.1752
566 0.10230 0.09251 0.05302 0.1590
567 0.27700 0.35140 0.15200 0.2397
568 0.04362 0.00000 0.00000 0.1587
mean fractal dimension ... worst radius worst texture \
0 0.07871 ... 25.380 17.33
1 0.05667 ... 24.990 23.41
2 0.05999 ... 23.570 25.53
3 0.09744 ... 14.910 26.50
4 0.05883 ... 22.540 16.67
.. ... ... ... ...
564 0.05623 ... 25.450 26.40
565 0.05533 ... 23.690 38.25
566 0.05648 ... 18.980 34.12
567 0.07016 ... 25.740 39.42
568 0.05884 ... 9.456 30.37
worst perimeter worst area worst smoothness worst compactness \
0 184.60 2019.0 0.16220 0.66560
1 158.80 1956.0 0.12380 0.18660
2 152.50 1709.0 0.14440 0.42450
3 98.87 567.7 0.20980 0.86630
4 152.20 1575.0 0.13740 0.20500
.. ... ... ... ...
564 166.10 2027.0 0.14100 0.21130
565 155.00 1731.0 0.11660 0.19220
566 126.70 1124.0 0.11390 0.30940
567 184.60 1821.0 0.16500 0.86810
568 59.16 268.6 0.08996 0.06444
worst concavity worst concave points worst symmetry \
0 0.7119 0.2654 0.4601
1 0.2416 0.1860 0.2750
2 0.4504 0.2430 0.3613
3 0.6869 0.2575 0.6638
4 0.4000 0.1625 0.2364
.. ... ... ...
564 0.4107 0.2216 0.2060
565 0.3215 0.1628 0.2572
566 0.3403 0.1418 0.2218
567 0.9387 0.2650 0.4087
568 0.0000 0.0000 0.2871
worst fractal dimension
0 0.11890
1 0.08902
2 0.08758
3 0.17300
4 0.07678
.. ...
564 0.07115
565 0.06637
566 0.07820
567 0.12400
568 0.07039
[569 rows x 30 columns]
malignant benign
0 1 0
1 1 0
2 1 0
3 1 0
4 1 0
.. ... ...
564 1 0
565 1 0
566 1 0
567 1 0
568 0 1
[569 rows x 2 columns]
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Common imports</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.model_selection</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.datasets</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">make_moons</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">export_graphviz</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pydot</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">graph_from_dot_data</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pandas</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">pd</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">make_moons</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_samples</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">noise</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.25</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">53</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_test</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">export_graphviz</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">out_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;DataFiles/moons.dot&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">rounded</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">filled</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">cmd</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;dot -Tpng DataFiles/moons.dot -o DataFiles/moons.png&#39;</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">system</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="section" id="other-ways-of-visualizing-the-trees">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.4.2. </span>Other ways of visualizing the trees<a class="headerlink" href="#other-ways-of-visualizing-the-trees" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p><strong>Scikit-Learn</strong> has also another way to visualize the trees which is very useful, here with the Iris data.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.datasets</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">load_iris</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">tree</span>
<span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">load_iris</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">return_X_y</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tree</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># and then plot the tree</span>
<span class="n">tree</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot_tree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="p">)</span>
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Text(141.64615384615385, 163.07999999999998, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 50\nvalue = [50, 0, 0]&#39;),
Text(193.15384615384616, 163.07999999999998, &#39;X[3] &lt;= 1.75\ngini = 0.5\nsamples = 100\nvalue = [0, 50, 50]&#39;),
Text(103.01538461538462, 126.83999999999999, &#39;X[2] &lt;= 4.95\ngini = 0.168\nsamples = 54\nvalue = [0, 49, 5]&#39;),
Text(51.50769230769231, 90.6, &#39;X[3] &lt;= 1.65\ngini = 0.041\nsamples = 48\nvalue = [0, 47, 1]&#39;),
Text(25.753846153846155, 54.359999999999985, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 47\nvalue = [0, 47, 0]&#39;),
Text(77.26153846153846, 54.359999999999985, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 1\nvalue = [0, 0, 1]&#39;),
Text(154.52307692307693, 90.6, &#39;X[3] &lt;= 1.55\ngini = 0.444\nsamples = 6\nvalue = [0, 2, 4]&#39;),
Text(128.76923076923077, 54.359999999999985, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 3\nvalue = [0, 0, 3]&#39;),
Text(180.27692307692308, 54.359999999999985, &#39;X[2] &lt;= 5.45\ngini = 0.444\nsamples = 3\nvalue = [0, 2, 1]&#39;),
Text(154.52307692307693, 18.119999999999976, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 2\nvalue = [0, 2, 0]&#39;),
Text(206.03076923076924, 18.119999999999976, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 1\nvalue = [0, 0, 1]&#39;),
Text(283.2923076923077, 126.83999999999999, &#39;X[2] &lt;= 4.85\ngini = 0.043\nsamples = 46\nvalue = [0, 1, 45]&#39;),
Text(257.53846153846155, 90.6, &#39;X[1] &lt;= 3.1\ngini = 0.444\nsamples = 3\nvalue = [0, 1, 2]&#39;),
Text(231.7846153846154, 54.359999999999985, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 2\nvalue = [0, 0, 2]&#39;),
Text(283.2923076923077, 54.359999999999985, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 1\nvalue = [0, 1, 0]&#39;),
Text(309.04615384615386, 90.6, &#39;gini = 0.0\nsamples = 43\nvalue = [0, 0, 43]&#39;)]
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<p>Alternatively, the tree can also be exported in textual format with the function exporttext.
This method doesnt require the installation of external libraries and is more compact:</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">export_text</span>
<span class="n">iris</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">load_iris</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">decision_tree</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">decision_tree</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">decision_tree</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">target</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">export_text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">decision_tree</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">feature_names</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">iris</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;feature_names&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">r</span><span class="p">)</span>
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|--- petal width (cm) &gt; 0.80
| |--- petal width (cm) &lt;= 1.75
| | |--- class: 1
| |--- petal width (cm) &gt; 1.75
| | |--- class: 2
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<div class="section" id="algorithms-for-setting-up-decision-trees">
<h2><span class="section-number">9.5. </span>Algorithms for Setting up Decision Trees<a class="headerlink" href="#algorithms-for-setting-up-decision-trees" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Two algorithms stand out in the set up of decision trees:</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>The CART (Classification And Regression Tree) algorithm for both classification and regression</p></li>
<li><p>The ID3 algorithm based on the computation of the information gain for classification</p></li>
</ol>
<p>We discuss both algorithms with applications here. The popular library
<strong>Scikit-Learn</strong> uses the CART algorithm. For classification problems
you can use either the <strong>gini</strong> index or the <strong>entropy</strong> to split a tree
in two branches.</p>
<div class="section" id="the-cart-algorithm-for-classification">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.5.1. </span>The CART algorithm for Classification<a class="headerlink" href="#the-cart-algorithm-for-classification" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>For classification, the CART algorithm splits the data set in two subsets using a single feature <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span> and a threshold <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t_k\)</span>.
This could be for example a threshold set by a number below a certain circumference of a malign tumor.</p>
<p>How do we find these two quantities?
We search for the pair <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((k,t_k)\)</span> that produces the purest subset using for example the <strong>gini</strong> factor <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(G\)</span>.
The cost function it tries to minimize is then</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
C(k,t_k) = \frac{m_{\mathrm{left}}}{m}G_{\mathrm{left}}+ \frac{m_{\mathrm{right}}}{m}G_{\mathrm{right}},
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(G_{\mathrm{left/right}}\)</span> measures the impurity of the left/right subset and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(m_{\mathrm{left/right}}\)</span>
is the number of instances in the left/right subset</p>
<p>Once it has successfully split the training set in two, it splits the subsets using the same logic, then the subsubsets
and so on, recursively. It stops recursing once it reaches the maximum depth (defined by the
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(max\_depth\)</span> hyperparameter), or if it cannot find a split that will reduce impurity. A few other
hyperparameters control additional stopping conditions such as the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(min\_samples\_split\)</span>,
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(min\_samples\_leaf\)</span>, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(min\_weight\_fraction\_leaf\)</span>, and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(max\_leaf\_nodes\)</span>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="the-cart-algorithm-for-regression">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.5.2. </span>The CART algorithm for Regression<a class="headerlink" href="#the-cart-algorithm-for-regression" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The CART algorithm for regression works is similar to the one for classification except that instead of trying to split the
training set in a way that minimizes say the <strong>gini</strong> or <strong>entropy</strong> impurity, it now tries to split the training set in a way that minimizes our well-known mean-squared error (MSE). The cost function is now</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
C(k,t_k) = \frac{m_{\mathrm{left}}}{m}\mathrm{MSE}_{\mathrm{left}}+ \frac{m_{\mathrm{right}}}{m}\mathrm{MSE}_{\mathrm{right}}.
\]</div>
<p>Here the MSE for a specific node is defined as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathrm{MSE}_{\mathrm{node}}=\frac{1}{m_\mathrm{node}}\sum_{i\in \mathrm{node}}(\overline{y}_{\mathrm{node}}-y_i)^2,
\]</div>
<p>with</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\overline{y}_{\mathrm{node}}=\frac{1}{m_\mathrm{node}}\sum_{i\in \mathrm{node}}y_i,
\]</div>
<p>the mean value of all observations in a specific node.</p>
<p>Without any regularization, the regression task for decision trees,
just like for classification tasks, is prone to overfitting.</p>
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<div class="section" id="computing-the-gini-index">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.5.3. </span>Computing the Gini index<a class="headerlink" href="#computing-the-gini-index" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The example we will look at is a classical one in many Machine
Learning applications. Based on various meteorological features, we
have several so-called attributes which decide whether we at the end
will do some outdoor activity like skiing, going for a bike ride etc
etc. The table here contains the feautures <strong>outlook</strong>, <strong>temperature</strong>,
<strong>humidity</strong> and <strong>wind</strong>. The target or output is whether we ride
(True=1) or whether we do something else that day (False=0). The
attributes for each feature are then sunny, overcast and rain for the
outlook, hot, cold and mild for temperature, high and normal for
humidity and weak and strong for wind.</p>
<p>The table here summarizes the various attributes and</p>
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr><th align="center">Day</th> <th align="center">Outlook </th> <th align="center">Temperature</th> <th align="center">Humidity</th> <th align="center"> Wind </th> <th align="center">Ride</th> </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td align="center"> 1 </td> <td align="center"> Sunny </td> <td align="center"> Hot </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 0 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 2 </td> <td align="center"> Sunny </td> <td align="center"> Hot </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 3 </td> <td align="center"> Overcast </td> <td align="center"> Hot </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 4 </td> <td align="center"> Rain </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 5 </td> <td align="center"> Rain </td> <td align="center"> Cool </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 6 </td> <td align="center"> Rain </td> <td align="center"> Cool </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 0 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 7 </td> <td align="center"> Overcast </td> <td align="center"> Cool </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 8 </td> <td align="center"> Sunny </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 0 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 9 </td> <td align="center"> Sunny </td> <td align="center"> Cool </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 10 </td> <td align="center"> Rain </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 11 </td> <td align="center"> Sunny </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 12 </td> <td align="center"> Overcast </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 13 </td> <td align="center"> Overcast </td> <td align="center"> Hot </td> <td align="center"> Normal </td> <td align="center"> Weak </td> <td align="center"> 1 </td> </tr>
<tr><td align="center"> 14 </td> <td align="center"> Rain </td> <td align="center"> Mild </td> <td align="center"> High </td> <td align="center"> Strong </td> <td align="center"> 0 </td> </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="simple-python-code-to-read-in-data-and-perform-classification">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.5.4. </span>Simple Python Code to read in Data and perform Classification<a class="headerlink" href="#simple-python-code-to-read-in-data-and-perform-classification" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Common imports</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pandas</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">pd</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.model_selection</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">export_graphviz</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.preprocessing</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">StandardScaler</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">OneHotEncoder</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.compose</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ColumnTransformer</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">IPython.display</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Image</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pydot</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">graph_from_dot_data</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="c1"># Where to save the figures and data files</span>
<span class="n">PROJECT_ROOT_DIR</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Results&quot;</span>
<span class="n">FIGURE_ID</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Results/FigureFiles&quot;</span>
<span class="n">DATA_ID</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;DataFiles/&quot;</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exists</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">PROJECT_ROOT_DIR</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mkdir</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">PROJECT_ROOT_DIR</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exists</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FIGURE_ID</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">makedirs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FIGURE_ID</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exists</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">DATA_ID</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">makedirs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">DATA_ID</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">image_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig_id</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FIGURE_ID</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fig_id</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">data_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dat_id</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">DATA_ID</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dat_id</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">save_fig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig_id</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">savefig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig_id</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s2">&quot;.png&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;png&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">infile</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">data_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;rideclass.csv&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="s1">&#39;r&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Read the experimental data with Pandas</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">IPython.display</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">display</span>
<span class="n">ridedata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_csv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">infile</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">names</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;Outlook&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;Temperature&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;Humidity&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;Wind&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;Ride&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">ridedata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DataFrame</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ridedata</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Features and targets</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ridedata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">loc</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="n">ridedata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">columns</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;Ride&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">values</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ridedata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">loc</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="n">ridedata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">columns</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s1">&#39;Ride&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">values</span>
<span class="c1"># Create the encoder.</span>
<span class="n">encoder</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">OneHotEncoder</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">handle_unknown</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;ignore&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Assume for simplicity all features are categorical.</span>
<span class="n">encoder</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Apply the encoder.</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">encoder</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">transform</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Then do a Classification tree</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Train set accuracy with Decision Tree: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1">#transfer to a decision tree graph</span>
<span class="n">export_graphviz</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">out_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;DataFiles/ride.dot&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">rounded</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">filled</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">cmd</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;dot -Tpng DataFiles/cancer.dot -o DataFiles/cancer.png&#39;</span>
<span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">system</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="ne">FileNotFoundError</span><span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span>Traceback (most recent call last)
<span class="o">/</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">folders</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">jy</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">g42mrgv128v34gnnhxwk9nrc0000gp</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">T</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">ipykernel_42541</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="mf">4192423635.</span><span class="n">py</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">module</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span><span class="mi">35</span> <span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">savefig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig_id</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s2">&quot;.png&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;png&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span><span class="mi">36</span>
<span class="ne">---&gt; </span><span class="mi">37</span> <span class="n">infile</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">data_path</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;rideclass.csv&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="s1">&#39;r&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span><span class="mi">38</span>
<span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span><span class="mi">39</span> <span class="c1"># Read the experimental data with Pandas</span>
<span class="ne">FileNotFoundError</span>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: &#39;DataFiles/rideclass.csv&#39;
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<p>The above functions (gini, entropy and misclassification error) are
important components of the so-called CART algorithm. We will discuss
this algorithm below after we have discussed the information gain
algorithm ID3.</p>
<p>In the example here we have converted all our attributes into numerical values <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(0,1,2\)</span> etc.</p>
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<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">test_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">left</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">right</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">row</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">left</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">row</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">right</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">row</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">left</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">right</span>
<span class="c1"># Calculate the Gini index for a split dataset</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">gini_index</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">groups</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">classes</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># count all samples at split point</span>
<span class="n">n_instances</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">sum</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">group</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">groups</span><span class="p">]))</span>
<span class="c1"># sum weighted Gini index for each group</span>
<span class="n">gini</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">group</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">groups</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">size</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="c1"># avoid divide by zero</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">size</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">continue</span>
<span class="n">score</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="c1"># score the group based on the score for each class</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">class_val</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">classes</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">row</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">group</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">count</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">class_val</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">size</span>
<span class="n">score</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">p</span>
<span class="c1"># weight the group score by its relative size</span>
<span class="n">gini</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">score</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">size</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">n_instances</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">gini</span>
<span class="c1"># Select the best split point for a dataset</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">class_values</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">row</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">b_index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_value</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_score</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_groups</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">999</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">999</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">999</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">None</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">index</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">row</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">groups</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">test_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">gini</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">gini_index</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">groups</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">class_values</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;X</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1"> &lt; </span><span class="si">%.3f</span><span class="s1"> Gini=</span><span class="si">%.3f</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">gini</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">gini</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">b_score</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">b_index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_value</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_score</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b_groups</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">row</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">gini</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">groups</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">&#39;index&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">b_index</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;value&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">b_value</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;groups&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">b_groups</span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">dataset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]]</span>
<span class="n">split</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;Split: [X</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1"> &lt; </span><span class="si">%.3f</span><span class="s1">]&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;index&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;value&#39;</span><span class="p">]))</span>
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<div class="section" id="entropy-and-the-id3-algorithm">
<h2><span class="section-number">9.6. </span>Entropy and the ID3 algorithm<a class="headerlink" href="#entropy-and-the-id3-algorithm" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The ID3 algorithm learns decision trees by constructing
them in a top down way, beginning with the question <strong>which attribute should be tested at the root of the tree</strong>?</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Each instance attribute is evaluated using a statistical test to determine how well it alone classifies the training examples.</p></li>
<li><p>The best attribute is selected and used as the test at the root node of the tree.</p></li>
<li><p>A descendant of the root node is then created for each possible value of this attribute.</p></li>
<li><p>Training examples are sorted to the appropriate descendant node.</p></li>
<li><p>The entire process is then repeated using the training examples associated with each descendant node to select the best attribute to test at that point in the tree.</p></li>
<li><p>This forms a greedy search for an acceptable decision tree, in which the algorithm never backtracks to reconsider earlier choices.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The ID3 algorithm selects which attribute to test at each node in the
tree.</p>
<p>We would like to select the attribute that is most useful for classifying
examples.</p>
<p>What is a good quantitative measure of the worth of an attribute?</p>
<p>Information gain measures how well a given attribute separates the
training examples according to their target classification.</p>
<p>The ID3 algorithm uses this information gain measure to select among the candidate
attributes at each step while growing the tree.</p>
<div class="section" id="cancer-data-again-now-with-decision-trees-and-other-methods">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.6.1. </span>Cancer Data again now with Decision Trees and other Methods<a class="headerlink" href="#cancer-data-again-now-with-decision-trees-and-other-methods" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.model_selection</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.datasets</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">load_breast_cancer</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.svm</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">SVC</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.linear_model</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">LogisticRegression</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="c1"># Load the data</span>
<span class="n">cancer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">load_breast_cancer</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_test</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">train_test_split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">cancer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">target</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Logistic Regression</span>
<span class="n">logreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">LogisticRegression</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solver</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;lbfgs&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy with Logistic Regression: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># Support vector machine</span>
<span class="n">svm</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">SVC</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gamma</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;auto&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">C</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">svm</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy with SVM: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">svm</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># Decision Trees</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy with Decision Trees: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">deep_tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1">#now scale the data</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.preprocessing</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">StandardScaler</span>
<span class="n">scaler</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">StandardScaler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">scaler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_train_scaled</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">scaler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">transform</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_test_scaled</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">scaler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">transform</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Logistic Regression</span>
<span class="n">logreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy Logistic Regression with scaled data: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># Support Vector Machine</span>
<span class="n">svm</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy SVM with scaled data: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># Decision Trees</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_train_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_train</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Test set accuracy with Decision Trees and scaled data: </span><span class="si">{:.2f}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">deep_tree_clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">score</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_test_scaled</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y_test</span><span class="p">)))</span>
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<div class="section" id="another-example-the-moons-again">
<h3><span class="section-number">9.6.2. </span>Another example, the moons again<a class="headerlink" href="#another-example-the-moons-again" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">__future__</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">division</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">print_function</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">unicode_literals</span>
<span class="c1"># Common imports</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="c1"># to make this notebook&#39;s output stable across runs</span>
<span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># To plot pretty figures</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.colors</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ListedColormap</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rcParams</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;axes.labelsize&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">14</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rcParams</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;xtick.labelsize&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">12</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rcParams</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;ytick.labelsize&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">12</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.svm</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">SVC</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datasets</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.datasets</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">make_moons</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">export_graphviz</span>
<span class="n">Xm</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ym</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">make_moons</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_samples</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">noise</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.25</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">53</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">min_samples_leaf</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Xm</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ym</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">deep_tree_clf2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Xm</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ym</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">plot_decision_boundary</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">clf</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">7.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">legend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">plot_training</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">x1s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x2s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">meshgrid</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1s</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x2s</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X_new</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ravel</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">x2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ravel</span><span class="p">()]</span>
<span class="n">y_pred</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">clf</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X_new</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">reshape</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">custom_cmap</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ListedColormap</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s1">&#39;#fafab0&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;#9898ff&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;#a0faa0&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contourf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_pred</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">alpha</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cmap</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">custom_cmap</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">custom_cmap2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ListedColormap</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s1">&#39;#7d7d58&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;#4c4c7f&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;#507d50&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contour</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_pred</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cmap</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">custom_cmap2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">alpha</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.8</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">plot_training</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s2">&quot;yo&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;Iris-Setosa&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s2">&quot;bs&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;Iris-Versicolor&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s2">&quot;g^&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;Iris-Virginica&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Petal length&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Petal width&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;$x_1$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;$x_2$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">rotation</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loc</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;lower right&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">figsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">121</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_decision_boundary</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">deep_tree_clf1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Xm</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ym</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">2.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.5</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;No restrictions&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">16</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">122</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_decision_boundary</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">deep_tree_clf2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Xm</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ym</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">2.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.5</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;min_samples_leaf = </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">deep_tree_clf2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">min_samples_leaf</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Xs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span>
<span class="n">ys</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Xs</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">astype</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">float32</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="n">angle</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="mi">4</span>
<span class="n">rotation_matrix</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cos</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">angle</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">angle</span><span class="p">)],</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">angle</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cos</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">angle</span><span class="p">)]])</span>
<span class="n">Xsr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xs</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rotation_matrix</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf_s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf_s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Xs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ys</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf_sr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeClassifier</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_clf_sr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Xsr</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ys</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">figsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">121</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_decision_boundary</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_clf_s</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Xs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">122</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_decision_boundary</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_clf_sr</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Xsr</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.7</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">iris</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Quadratic training set + noise</span>
<span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">200</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">**</span> <span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">10</span>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.tree</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">max_depth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">plot_regression_predictions</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_reg</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;$y$&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">x1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="mi">500</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">reshape</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_pred</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tree_reg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">axes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;$x_1$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">rotation</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b.&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_pred</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r.-&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;$\hat</span><span class="si">{y}</span><span class="s2">$&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">figsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">121</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_regression_predictions</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_reg1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">style</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="mf">0.1973</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k-&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.0917</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k--&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.7718</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k--&quot;</span><span class="p">)):</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">style</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.21</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.65</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Depth=0&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">15</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.01</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Depth=1&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.65</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Depth=1&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loc</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;upper center&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;max_depth=2&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">122</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_regression_predictions</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_reg2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">style</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="mf">0.1973</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k-&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.0917</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k--&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.7718</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k--&quot;</span><span class="p">)):</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">style</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">split</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.0458</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.1298</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.2873</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.9040</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">split</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s2">&quot;k:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">0.3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Depth=2&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;max_depth=3&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">tree_reg1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DecisionTreeRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">min_samples_leaf</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tree_reg2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">500</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">reshape</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_pred1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tree_reg1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y_pred2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tree_reg2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">figsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">121</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b.&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_pred1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r.-&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;$\hat</span><span class="si">{y}</span><span class="s2">$&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;$x_1$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;$y$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">rotation</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loc</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;upper center&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;No restrictions&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">122</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b.&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y_pred2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r.-&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">linewidth</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;$\hat</span><span class="si">{y}</span><span class="s2">$&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">0.2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;$x_1$&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;min_samples_leaf=</span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tree_reg2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">min_samples_leaf</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">fontsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="section" id="pros-and-cons-of-trees-pros">
<h2><span class="section-number">9.7. </span>Pros and cons of trees, pros<a class="headerlink" href="#pros-and-cons-of-trees-pros" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>White box, easy to interpret model. Some people believe that decision trees more closely mirror human decision-making than do the regression and classification approaches discussed earlier (think of support vector machines)</p></li>
<li><p>Trees are very easy to explain to people. In fact, they are even easier to explain than linear regression!</p></li>
<li><p>No feature normalization needed</p></li>
<li><p>Tree models can handle both continuous and categorical data (Classification and Regression Trees)</p></li>
<li><p>Can model nonlinear relationships</p></li>
<li><p>Can model interactions between the different descriptive features</p></li>
<li><p>Trees can be displayed graphically, and are easily interpreted even by a non-expert (especially if they are small)</p></li>
</ul>
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<h3><span class="section-number">9.7.1. </span>Disadvantages<a class="headerlink" href="#disadvantages" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Unfortunately, trees generally do not have the same level of predictive accuracy as some of the other regression and classification approaches</p></li>
<li><p>If continuous features are used the tree may become quite large and hence less interpretable</p></li>
<li><p>Decision trees are prone to overfit the training data and hence do not well generalize the data if no stopping criteria or improvements like pruning, boosting or bagging are implemented</p></li>
<li><p>Small changes in the data may lead to a completely different tree. This issue can be addressed by using ensemble methods like bagging, boosting or random forests</p></li>
<li><p>Unbalanced datasets where some target feature values occur much more frequently than others may lead to biased trees since the frequently occurring feature values are preferred over the less frequently occurring ones.</p></li>
<li><p>If the number of features is relatively large (high dimensional) and the number of instances is relatively low, the tree might overfit the data</p></li>
<li><p>Features with many levels may be preferred over features with less levels since for them it is <em>more easy</em> to split the dataset such that the sub datasets only contain pure target feature values. This issue can be addressed by preferring for instance the information gain ratio as splitting criteria over information gain</p></li>
</ul>
<p>However, by aggregating many decision trees, using methods like
bagging, random forests, and boosting, the predictive performance of
trees can be substantially improved.</p>
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