decision tree

English

A manually prepared
decision tree

Noun

decision tree (plural decision trees)

1. A visualization of a complex decision-making situation in which the possible decisions and their likely outcomes are organized in the form of a graph that resembles a tree.

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

visualization of decision making

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 決策樹 (zh), 决策树 (zh) (juécèshù)

• Finnish: päätöspuu
• German: Entscheidungsbaum m

• Hungarian: döntési fa
• Japanese: 決定木 (ketteigi)

See also

• backward induction
• decision analysis

Further reading

• decision tree on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• decision tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia