Tree-structured classifiers

A tree-structured classifier is a decision tree for predicting a class variable from one or more predictor variables. THAID was the first such algorithm. This article focuses on the classification and regression trees CART (R) C4.5, and GUIDE methods. The algorithms are briefly reviewed and their similarities and differences are compared on a real data set and by simulation. (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.