Online Program
Thursday, February 21 | |
SC5 Tree Modeling |
Thu, Feb 21, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Napoleon A3 |
Outline & Objectives (302628)Upon successful completion of this course, the student will understand: • What decision trees are and why they are useful modeling algorithms • How the CART algorithm works to build a decision tree • Variations of a basic decision tree as implemented in different software tools including CART, JMP, and SAS • How the Stochastic Gradient Boosting Algorithm works and why it is a powerful predictive (and descriptive) algorithms. • How the Random Forest Algorithm works and why it is also a powerful algorithm • Variations in software implementation of Gradient Boosting and Random Forest
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