How to Use decision tree in a Sentence

decision tree

noun
Definition of decision treenext
  • The Cowboys talk about the need for a clear decision tree.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2020
  • But the decision tree of what to say when is the complicated part.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 28 June 2018
  • Longbed, shortbed, all kinds of cabs, two-wheel-drive, four-wheel-drive, and all-wheel-drive: the F-150's decision tree is an aspen.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2019
  • There is no market, no decision tree, which can guide us here.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2012
  • Offer sheets for Ball and Hart will determine which branches of the decision tree flourish and which ideas die on the vine.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Attracted by what looked at first like an easy bargain, neither player looked down the decision tree to the end.
    — Lee Drutman, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Domino’s Pizza offers a good, after-the-fact demonstration of how the decision tree can work.
    — Matthieu Gombeaud, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart are restricted free agents and the front office has their decision tree concerning them mostly in place.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The decision tree includes branches for planets that don’t seem to resemble any stage of Earth history.
    — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Even the myriad decision trees involved in gearing up (as hinted at in these pages) can be daunting for a beginner.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 18 June 2021
  • The answer to one question will determine the next question — what’s known as a decision tree — and the questions generally take five to 10 minutes to complete.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2019
  • These values were then sent on to a second form of processing, using a machine-learning approach called a decision tree.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020
  • What’s needed is a Return To Running decision tree, an algorithm that follows every twist and turn of the recovery dance.
    — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Uber’s safety guidelines end up looking like a cross between a checklist and a decision tree, with each item flowing from that premise that its vehicles are safe to drive on public roads.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 18 July 2019
  • For example, the campus could create a decision tree that helps students identify when and where to reach out to get help with their specific concerns.
    — The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2020
  • To avoid overfitting, Middlebrook and Sheik built their model to combine hundreds of thousands of decision trees.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
  • So Lynch suggested something straight from her own research playbook: decision trees and random forests.
    — Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
  • These decision trees make the final call about whether an account represents a problem and needs to be deactivated.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Here's how to protect them Considering multitasking with cores, threads This is one of the more important areas of focus in your decision tree.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The framework could be a company credo, an internal workstream or decision tree.
    — Avery Blank, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Almost every path in the decision tree that leads to a deal has potentially insurmountable roadblocks.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The site relies on the same algorithm that doctors use in traveling down a symptom decision tree with patients to come up with a diagnosis, but provides the results in a more consumer-friendly way.
    — Alice Park, Time, 10 Apr. 2018
  • With Young’s decision tree, astronomers would try to see whether there’s a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere—a sign there’s actually water down below.
    — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The algorithm essentially works like a decision tree in which each branch splits the data set according to some statistical feature.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The only good way to leave one job for another is almost, leaving coaches to navigate an impossible decision tree.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2023
  • For example, the patient’s risk of stroke could also be consistent with a decision tree that relies on one’s gender and diabetes status instead of blood pressure and smoking status.
    — Boris Babic, STAT, 23 July 2021
  • By using a decision tree to optimize the candidate search, the researchers say their new process improves the existing process for forensic genetic genealogy by a factor of ten.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Only a small percentage of schools are oversubscribed (McGraw and Tiernan estimate around 6%), forcing a decision tree of priorities to determine if the child gets a spot.
    — Mike McShane, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • The first three steps are about structuring and collecting information in a decision tree to help make a recommendation that considers all key factors.
    — Erik Larson, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Embrace the technology by establishing a low-code platform workflow decision tree and focus on business friction and pain points.
    — Chandra Gundlapalli, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021

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