Re: J48 classifier enforce a binary decision tree

Alternatively, one can set "useBinary" in J48 to value "true". (The
command-line flag is -B.)

Cheers,
Eibe

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 10:15, Peter Reutemann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > is there a way to enforce that the decision tree that is
> > produced by the J48 classifier is binary?
>
> Try preprocessing your data using the NominalToBinary filter:
> https://weka.sourceforge.io/doc.dev/weka/filters/unsupervised/attribute/NominalToBinary.html
>
> Recommended approach: wrap your J48 classifier and NominalToBinary
> filter in the FilteredClassifier meta classifier, then you don't have
> to modify your original data.
>
> Cheers, Peter
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