When the number of categories, c is big, decision tress are particularly good.
Example: Consider the query "Identify the fruit" from a set of c=7 categories {watermelon, apple, grape, lemon, grapefruit, banana, cherry} .
One possible decision tree based on simple queries is the following:
- To insert the decision tree example on fruits from class**
Three crucial questions to answer
For constructing a decision tree, for a given classification problem, we have to answer these three questions
1) Which question shoud be asked at a given node -"Query Selection"
2) When should we stop asking questions and declare the node to be a leaf -"When should we stop splitting"
3) Once a node is decided to be a leaf, what category should be assigned to this leaf -"Leaf classification"
We shall discuss questions 1 and 2 (3 being very trivial)
