C4.5

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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C4.5 is one of the most well known variants of Quinlan, Ross's ID3 decision tree learning algorithm. C4.5 has a number of variations from basic ID3 including the use of normalised information gain for non-binary node decisions.

Used in Chap. 5: page 74