Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Manual categories/separate classifiers

2014-05-31 Thread Tim Head
Hi Gilles, On 23 May 2014 15:06, Gilles Louppe g.lou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tim, In principles, what you describe exactly corresponds to the decision tree algorithm. You partition the input space into smaller subspaces, on which you recursively build sub-decision trees. Exactly. What I was

[Scikit-learn-general] Manual categories/separate classifiers

2014-05-23 Thread Tim Head
Hello, a naive question about what I should do and what already exists in scikit-learn. I have a classification problem with two classes, and I know that one of my features has two different different distributions for one of the classes. Example made up on the spot (real life is more

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Manual categories/separate classifiers

2014-05-23 Thread Gilles Louppe
Hi Tim, In principles, what you describe exactly corresponds to the decision tree algorithm. You partition the input space into smaller subspaces, on which you recursively build sub-decision trees. In practice however, I would not split things by hand, unless you are interested in discovering