Attribute Selection Method

A heuristic to determine the best splittig criterion to partition Data for Decision Tree Induction which is being used to construct a Decision Tree.

Methods

All of these methods give good results and none is significantly superior to others.

• Information Gain
• Gain Ratio
• Gini Index
• Expected Information
• CHAID
• C-SEP
• G-statistic
• MDL principle
• Multivariate splits