Decision Trees and NULL Values | Vantage Analytics Library - Decision Trees and NULL Values - Vantage Analytics Library

Vantage Analytics Library User Guide

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
VMware
Product
Vantage Analytics Library
Release Number
2.2.0
Published
March 2023
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2024-01-02
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage

The Analytics Library functions decisiontree and decisiontreescore handle NULL values differently.

The decisiontree function uses listwise deletion. That is, if a row has a NULL value for any variable (independent or dependent), the function removes that row from the model-building process.

The decisiontreescore function scores all rows except those that have NULL values for the variable a decision node is testing. For example, if a decision node is "age < 50", the function does not score rows that have NULL values for the age variable, but it does score rows that have NULL values for other variables.