COEN240 Homework5 Solved

Description

You are a robot in a lumber yard, and must learn to discriminate Oak wood from Pine wood. You choose to learn a Decision Tree classifier. You are given the following examples:

1.1 Which attribute will be chosen as the root of the tree (show derivations)?

1.2 Derive the complete decision tree by recursively applying the smallest entropy criterion to select root nodes of sub-trees (show derivations). Then draw the complete decision tree.

Problem 2 

NASA wants to discriminate Martians (M) from Humans (H) based on these features (attributes): Green ∈ {N, Y}, Legs∈ {2,3}, Height∈ {S, T}, Smelly ∈ {N, Y}. Your available training data is as follows (N=No, Y=Yes, S=Short, T=Tall):

(h) Derive the complete decision tree by recursively applying the smallest entropy criterion to select root nodes of sub-trees (show derivations). Then draw the complete decision tree.