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[S] Tree mystery (minor correction)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buttrey, Samuel)
Fri Jul 23 12:52:10 1999

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From: "Buttrey, Samuel" <sebuttre@monterey.nps.navy.mil>
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Cc: "Kobayashi, Izumi" <ikobaya@nps.navy.mil>,
        "Koyak, Robert"
	 <rakoyak@monterey.nps.navy.mil>,
        "Whitaker, Lyn"
	 <LWhitaker@monterey.nps.navy.mil>,
        "Read, Robert"
	 <RRead@monterey.nps.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:53:30 -0700
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Sorry. When I said: 

> Consider this six-row data frame.
> 
> > test <- data.frame (y = as.factor (c(0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1)), x = c(0, 1,
> 1.00001, 1.00001, 2, 2))
> 
> The ideal tree would split x between 1 and 1.00001, perhaps at the
> mid-point, 1.000005. 
> 
the next line should have read

"then both observations where y = 0 would go to the left, and all four where
y = 1 would go to the right."

Sorry,
Sam Buttrey
buttrey@nps.navy.mil
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