My question is more along the lines of will the DT classifier falsely infer an ordering?

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org> wrote:

For large enough models (e.g. random forests or gradient boosted trees
ensembles) I would definitely recommend arbitrary integer coding for
the categorical variables.

Try both, use cross-validation and see for yourself.

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