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The decision tree is a greedy algorithm that performs a recursive binary partitioning of the feature space. The tree provides a class distribution in each leaf partition. Each partition is chosen greedily by selecting the best split from a set of possible splits, in order to maximize the information gain at a tree node. In other words, the split chosen at each tree node maximizes IG(D,s) where IG(D,s) is the information gain when a split s is applied to a dataset D.
Following are the three popular Impurity Measures:
Where p(i|t) is the probability or relative frequency of class i in node t.
Following is a comparison chart for above three measures in case of Binary Classification.
QUESTION I: What are the three basic stop times for tree pruning?
QUESTION II: Why the decision tree is called a greedy algorithm?