The Best Numeric Threshold: Trying Every Cut-Point
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You let the data choose the DTI threshold: for six candidate cut-points you count both sides, compute the weighted Gini, and pick the cut-point with the purest split.
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- Entropy & Gini: How Mixed Is a Node? Locked
- Information Gain: Scoring Candidate Splits with COUNTIFS Locked
- The Best Numeric Threshold: Trying Every Cut-Point Locked
- Growing a Two-Level Tree: Leaves & Nested IF Predictions Locked
- Overfitting & Pruning: Train vs Test Accuracy by Depth Locked
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- Gradient Boosting by Hand: Residuals, Stumps & a Learning Rate Locked
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