SOA Exam SRM Sample Question 25

Study guide: Exam SRM

Determine which of the following statements concerning decision tree pruning is/are true.

• I. The recursive binary splitting method can lead to overfitting the data.

• II. A tree with more splits tends to have lower variance.

• III. When using the cost complexity pruning method, \alpha = 0 results in a very large tree.

• A) None

• B) I and II only

• C) I and III only

• D) II and III only

• E) The correct answer is not given by (A), (B), (C), or (D).

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Concepts tested

• Tree Pruning
• Overfitting
• Decision Tree
• Bias-Variance Tradeoff

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