American Express Interview Question | Decision Tree

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You have to choose between creating a large decision tree or 100 small decision trees for a same problem. Which one will you prefer and why?

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Dhruv2301 55 years 1 Answer 1038 views Great Grand Master 0

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  1. A Large decision tree will overfit.
    100 small trees can act as an ensemble and help in reducing the variance, thus
    giving better results.

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    We will go with the small 100 decision tree because it will provide the better result by reducing the high variance. In case of large decision tree there is a chances of overfitting.

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