Research Article

Relationships among Seepage, Water Level, and Rainfall of a Fill Dam by Decision Tree Analysis

Table 3

Splitting rules for decision trees.

CategoriesSplitting rulesSplitting conditions

Discrete distribution value for Under the condition that value is minimized
Gini indexUnder the conditions that most reduce the Gini index
Entropy indexUnder conditions that reduce the most entropy index

Continuous distribution value for Under conditions where value is minimized
Decrements of varianceUnder conditions that maximize the amount of variance reduction