A decision tree classifier.
Read more in the :ref:`User Guide <tree>`.
Parameters
----------
criterion : string, optional (default="gini")
The function to measure the quality of a split. Supported criteria are
"gini" for the Gini impurity and "entropy" for the information gain.
splitter : string, optional (default="best")
The strategy used to choose the split at each node. Supported
strategies are "best" to choose the best split and "random" to choose
the best random split.
max_depth : int or None, optional (default=None)
The maximum depth of the tree. If None, then nodes are expanded until
all leaves are pure or until all leaves contain less than
min_samples_split samples.
min_samples_split : int, float, optional (default=2)
The minimum number of samples required to split an internal node:
- If int, then consider `min_samples_split` as the minimum number.
- If float, then `min_samples_split` is a fraction and
`ceil(min_samples_split * n_samples)` are the minimum
number of samples for each split.
.. versionchanged:: 0.18
Added float values for fractions.
min_samples_leaf : int, float, optional (default=1)
The minimum number of samples required to be at a leaf node.
A split point at any depth will only be considered if it leaves at
least ``min_samples_leaf`` training samples in each of the left and
right branches. This may have the effect of smoothing the model,
especially in regression.
- If int, then consider `min_samples_leaf` as the minimum number.
- If float, then `min_samples_leaf` is a fraction and
`ceil(min_samples_leaf * n_samples)` are the minimum
number of samples for each node.
.. versionchanged:: 0.18
Added float values for fractions.
min_weight_fraction_leaf : float, optional (default=0.)
The minimum weighted fraction of the sum total of weights (of all
the input samples) required to be at a leaf node. Samples have
equal weight when sample_weight is not provided.
max_features : int, float, string or None, optional (default=None)
The number of features to consider when looking for the best split:
- If int, then consider `max_features` features at each split.
- If float, then `max_features` is a fraction and
`int(max_features * n_features)` features are considered at each
split.
- If "auto", then `max_features=sqrt(n_features)`.
- If "sqrt", then `max_features=sqrt(n_features)`.
- If "log2", then `max_features=log2(n_features)`.
- If None, then `max_features=n_features`.
Note: the search for a split does not stop until at least one
valid partition of the node samples is found, even if it requires to
effectively inspect more than ``max_features`` features.
random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)
If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator;
If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator;
If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used
by `np.random`.
max_leaf_nodes : int or None, optional (default=None)
Grow a tree with ``max_leaf_nodes`` in best-first fashion.
Best nodes are defined as relative reduction in impurity.
If None then unlimited number of leaf nodes.
min_impurity_decrease : float, optional (default=0.)
A node will be split if this split induces a decrease of the impurity
greater than or equal to this value.
The weighted impurity decrease equation is the following::
N_t / N * (impurity - N_t_R / N_t * right_impurity
- N_t_L / N_t * left_impurity)
where ``N`` is the total number of samples, ``N_t`` is the number of
samples at the current node, ``N_t_L`` is the number of samples in the
left child, and ``N_t_R`` is the number of samples in the right child.
``N``, ``N_t``, ``N_t_R`` and ``N_t_L`` all refer to the weighted sum,
if ``sample_weight`` is passed.
.. versionadded:: 0.19
min_impurity_split : float, (default=1e-7)
Threshold for early stopping in tree growth. A node will split
if its impurity is above the threshold, otherwise it is a leaf.
.. deprecated:: 0.19
``min_impurity_split`` has been deprecated in favor of
``min_impurity_decrease`` in 0.19. The default value of
``min_impurity_split`` will change from 1e-7 to 0 in 0.23 and it
will be removed in 0.25. Use ``min_impurity_decrease`` instead.
class_weight : dict, list of dicts, "balanced" or None, default=None
Weights associated with classes in the form ``{class_label: weight}``.
If not given, all classes are supposed to have weight one. For
multi-output problems, a list of dicts can be provided in the same
order as the columns of y.
Note that for multioutput (including multilabel) weights should be
defined for each class of every column in its own dict. For example,
for four-class multilabel classification weights should be
[{0: 1, 1: 1}, {0: 1, 1: 5}, {0: 1, 1: 1}, {0: 1, 1: 1}] instead of
[{1:1}, {2:5}, {3:1}, {4:1}].
The "balanced" mode uses the values of y to automatically adjust
weights inversely proportional to class frequencies in the input data
as ``n_samples / (n_classes * np.bincount(y))``
For multi-output, the weights of each column of y will be multiplied.
Note that these weights will be multiplied with sample_weight (passed
through the fit method) if sample_weight is specified.
presort : bool, optional (default=False)
Whether to presort the data to speed up the finding of best splits in
fitting. For the default settings of a decision tree on large
datasets, setting this to true may slow down the training process.
When using either a smaller dataset or a restricted depth, this may
speed up the training.
Attributes
----------
classes_ : array of shape = [n_classes] or a list of such arrays
The classes labels (single output problem),
or a list of arrays of class labels (multi-output problem).
feature_importances_ : array of shape = [n_features]
The feature importances. The higher, the more important the
feature. The importance of a feature is computed as the (normalized)
total reduction of the criterion brought by that feature. It is also
known as the Gini importance [4]_.
max_features_ : int,
The inferred value of max_features.
n_classes_ : int or list
The number of classes (for single output problems),
or a list containing the number of classes for each
output (for multi-output problems).
n_features_ : int
The number of features when ``fit`` is performed.
n_outputs_ : int
The number of outputs when ``fit`` is performed.
tree_ : Tree object
The underlying Tree object. Please refer to
``help(sklearn.tree._tree.Tree)`` for attributes of Tree object and
:ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_tree_plot_unveil_tree_structure.py`
for basic usage of these attributes.
Notes
-----
The default values for the parameters controlling the size of the trees
(e.g. ``max_depth``, ``min_samples_leaf``, etc.) lead to fully grown and
unpruned trees which can potentially be very large on some data sets. To
reduce memory consumption, the complexity and size of the trees should be
controlled by setting those parameter values.
The features are always randomly permuted at each split. Therefore,
the best found split may vary, even with the same training data and
``max_features=n_features``, if the improvement of the criterion is
identical for several splits enumerated during the search of the best
split. To obtain a deterministic behaviour during fitting,
``random_state`` has to be fixed.
See also
--------
DecisionTreeRegressor
References
----------
.. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning
.. [2] L. Breiman, J. Friedman, R. Olshen, and C. Stone, "Classification
and Regression Trees", Wadsworth, Belmont, CA, 1984.
.. [3] T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman. "Elements of Statistical
Learning", Springer, 2009.
.. [4] L. Breiman, and A. Cutler, "Random Forests",
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home.htm
Examples
--------
>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
>>> from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
>>> from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
>>> clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=0)
>>> iris = load_iris()
>>> cross_val_score(clf, iris.data, iris.target, cv=10)
... # doctest: +SKIP
...
array([ 1. , 0.93..., 0.86..., 0.93..., 0.93...,
0.93..., 0.93..., 1. , 0.93..., 1. ])