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Message-ID: <4268DA4C.4070701@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-04-22T11:04:44Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: How to know if a classification tree is predicitve or not?
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20050421191224.0122a398@toulouse.inra.fr>

Laure Maton wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to know how to know if a classification tree is predictive 
> or not ?
> Is it sufficient to analyse results of cross validation?

Depends on your interpretation of "predictive", maybe you want to look 
at stuff like sensitivity and specificity as well.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks for your help
> Laure Maton
> 
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