优缺点分析： 优点：计算复杂度不高，输出结果较直观，易于理解，对中间值的缺失不敏感，可以处理不相关特征数据 缺点：可能产生过度匹配
创建数据集并计算其熵值：
from math import log import operator
def createDataSet(): dataSet = [[1, 1, 'yes'], [1, 1, 'yes'], [1, 0, 'no'], [0, 1, 'no'], [0, 1, 'no']] labels = ['no surfacing','flippers'] #change to discrete values return dataSet, labels
myDat,labels=createDataSet()
def calcShannonEnt(dataSet): numEntries = len(dataSet) labelCounts = {} for featVec in dataSet: #the the number of unique elements and their occurance currentLabel = featVec[-1] labelCounts[currentLabel] =labelCounts.get(currentLabel,0)+1 shannonEnt = 0.0 for key in labelCounts: prob = float(labelCounts[key])/numEntries shannonEnt -= prob * log(prob,2) #log base 2 return shannonEnt
shannonEnt=calcShannonEnt(myDat)
将数据集的特征划分出来：
def splitDataSet(dataSet, axis, value): retDataSet = [] for featVec in dataSet: if featVec[axis] == value: reducedFeatVec = featVec[:axis] #chop out axis used for splitting reducedFeatVec.extend(featVec[axis+1:]) retDataSet.append(reducedFeatVec) return retDataSet
从特征中选择最好的划分方式：
def chooseBestFeatureToSplit(dataSet): numFeatures = len(dataSet[0]) - 1 #the last column is used for the labels baseEntropy = calcShannonEnt(dataSet) bestInfoGain = 0.0; bestFeature = -1 for i in range(numFeatures): #iterate over all the features featList = [example[i] for example in dataSet]#create a list of all the examples of this feature uniqueVals = set(featList) #get a set of unique values newEntropy = 0.0 for value in uniqueVals: subDataSet = splitDataSet(dataSet, i, value) prob = len(subDataSet)/float(len(dataSet)) newEntropy += prob * calcShannonEnt(subDataSet) infoGain = baseEntropy - newEntropy #calculate the info gain; ie reduction in entropy if (infoGain > bestInfoGain): #compare this to the best gain so far bestInfoGain = infoGain #if better than current best, set to best bestFeature = i return bestFeature #returns an integer
显示出最好的特征是第0个特征。
设计一个函数，返回出现次数最多的那个特征（后面创建树会用到该函数）：
def majorityCnt(classList): classCount={} for vote in classList: if vote not in classCount.keys(): classCount[vote] = 0 classCount[vote] += 1 sortedClassCount = sorted(classCount.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True) return sortedClassCount[0][0]
现在进行树的创建：
def createTree(dataSet,labels): classList = [example[-1] for example in dataSet] if classList.count(classList[0]) == len(classList): return classList[0]#stop splitting when all of the classes are equal if len(dataSet[0]) == 1: #stop splitting when there are no more features in dataSet return majorityCnt(classList) bestFeat = chooseBestFeatureToSplit(dataSet) bestFeatLabel = labels[bestFeat] myTree = {bestFeatLabel:{}} del(labels[bestFeat]) featValues = [example[bestFeat] for example in dataSet] uniqueVals = set(featValues) for value in uniqueVals: subLabels = labels[:] #copy all of labels, so trees don't mess up existing labels myTree[bestFeatLabel][value] = createTree(splitDataSet(dataSet, bestFeat, value),subLabels) return myTree
myTree=createTree(myDat,labels) myTree
该树代表了如下这棵树：
