Practice Overfitting in Decision Trees - 5.4 | Module 3: Supervised Learning - Classification Fundamentals (Weeks 6) | Machine Learning
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5.4 - Overfitting in Decision Trees

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

Define overfitting in the context of Decision Trees.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how memorization differs from understanding.

Question 2

Easy

What is pruning in Decision Trees?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how trimming a tree helps keep it manageable.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is overfitting in Decision Trees?

  • Model learning the training data too well
  • Model generalizing well
  • Model being too simplistic

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how well the model performs on new data.

Question 2

True or False: Pre-pruning only occurs after a decision tree is fully grown.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about when the decision to stop growing the tree is made.

Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

You have a dataset with many outliers. Discuss how you would use Decision Trees and pruning techniques to develop a predictive model while minimizing overfitting.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how pruning can balance bias and variance while dealing with complex datasets.

Question 2

Create a scenario where a Decision Tree fails due to overfitting, detailing how applying both pre-pruning and post-pruning could help rectify the issue.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on how noise affects splits and how pruning might correct excessive complexity.

Challenge and get performance evaluation