Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Δέντρο Αποφάσεων	Ανάλυση Κύριων Συνιστωσών	Τυχαίο Δάσος
Πεδίο	Μηχανική Μάθηση	Μηχανική Μάθηση	Μηχανική Μάθηση
Οικογένεια	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Έτος προέλευσης	1984	2002	2001
Δημιουργός	Breiman, Friedman, Olshen & Stone	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Breiman, L.
Τύπος	Recursive partitioning (if-then rules)	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Breiman, L., Friedman, J.H., Olshen, R.A. & Stone, C.J. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Karar Ağacı (Decision Tree), karar ağacı, classification tree, regression tree	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble
Συναφείς	5	3	4
Σύνοψη	A Decision Tree is an interpretable classification and regression method, formalised by Breiman, Friedman, Olshen and Stone in their 1984 CART framework, that partitions the data with hierarchical if-then rules. Each split sends observations down one branch or another until a prediction is read off the leaf.	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.	Random Forest is an ensemble learning method, introduced by Leo Breiman in 2001, that grows many decision trees on bootstrap samples of the data and combines their votes to produce strong classification and regression. By pooling many slightly different trees, it produces more accurate and more stable predictions than any single tree.