MOTIVATION

• Why Decision Trees?

  
  

  • Shown to perform well on classification problems

    
    

  • Provide alternative methods to PCA and LDA

    
    

  • Machine learning techniques use a combination of heuristics and statistical modeling

    
    

• Problems with existing public domain software (IND)

  
  

  • Limited number of allowed attributes

    
    

  • Limited number of allowed class values and attribute values

    
    

  • Limit to alphanumeric characters for classes and attributes