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C4.5 algorithm

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c4.5 is Decision tree generating algorithm, based on ID3 algorithm. It contains several improvements, especially needed for software implementation. Improvements contains:

  • Choosing an appropriate attribute selection measure.
  • Handling training data with missing attribute values.
  • Handling attributes with differing costs.
  • Handling continuos attributes

and some others.