Machine learning foundations· book· 1984
Classification and Regression Trees
On the reading lists
- #6 on the Books shelf (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Defined CART methodology, including regression trees, impurity-based splitting, pruning, and tree-based prediction.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 1984 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 23,528 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
Editor's notes
- Classed as book: Breiman, Friedman, Olshen and Stone's 1984 monograph. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.