Cost-Sensitive pruning of decision trees

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The pruning of decision trees often relies on the classification accuracy of the decision tree. In this paper, we show how the misclassification costs, a related criterion applied if errors vary in their costs, can be integrated in several well-known pruning techniques.

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Knoll, U., Nakhaeizadeh, G., & Tausend, B. (1994). Cost-Sensitive pruning of decision trees. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 784 LNCS, pp. 383–386). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57868-4_79

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