Microsoft decision tree algorithm

hai ...............all

well i've read in Claude seidmann book about Data mining with microsoft decision, that the statistical techniques employed to build the decision trees include:

Cart, Chaid and C.45.Could anyone explain to me about cart,chaid and c.45? and how the tree statistical techniques influence the decision tree.

thank you so much

The decision tree algorithm used by MS is not CART, CHAID, or C4.5 - it's an algorithm developed by Microsoft Research.

There's more information available here:

"Scalable Classification over SQL Databases"

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/users/AutoAdmin/icde99.pdf

"Learning Bayesian Networks: The Combination of Knowledge and Statistical Data"

http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=81