Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner

Preface

This updated book on decision trees combines the talents and knowledge of two of the most experienced decision tree practitioners in the field today. Barry de Ville was a pioneer in the implementation of the CHAID and XAID approaches advocated by Kass (1975, 1980) and Hawkins and Kass (1982). He led the development of the first commercial implementation of an integrated CHAID/XAID approach to decision trees (deVille, 1990). Padraic Neville began developing decision tree algorithms in 1983 and served on the development team for the commercial implementation of the approach described in Classification and Regression Trees (Breiman et al. 1984). Padraic has served as the primary developer of the SAS decision tree software since the inauguration ...