[scikit-learn] decision trees

[Andrew Howe]

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 at 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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