sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier  
class sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier(*, criterion='gini', splitter='best', max_depth=None, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1, min_weight_fraction_leaf=0.0, max_features=None, random_state=None, max_leaf_nodes=None, min_impurity_decrease=0.0, min_impurity_split=None, class_weight=None, ccp_alpha=0.0) [source]
 
A decision tree classifier. Read more in the User Guide.  Parameters 
 
criterion{“gini”, “entropy”}, default=”gini” 

The function to measure the quality of a split. Supported criteria are “gini” for the Gini impurity and “entropy” for the information gain.  
splitter{“best”, “random”}, default=”best” 

The strategy used to choose the split at each node. Supported strategies are “best” to choose the best split and “random” to choose the best random split.  
max_depthint, default=None 

The maximum depth of the tree. If None, then nodes are expanded until all leaves are pure or until all leaves contain less than min_samples_split samples.  
min_samples_splitint or float, default=2 

The minimum number of samples required to split an internal node:  If int, then consider min_samples_split as the minimum number. If float, then min_samples_split is a fraction and ceil(min_samples_split * n_samples) are the minimum number of samples for each split.   Changed in version 0.18: Added float values for fractions.   
min_samples_leafint or float, default=1 

The minimum number of samples required to be at a leaf node. A split point at any depth will only be considered if it leaves at least min_samples_leaf training samples in each of the left and right branches. This may have the effect of smoothing the model, especially in regression.  If int, then consider min_samples_leaf as the minimum number. If float, then min_samples_leaf is a fraction and ceil(min_samples_leaf * n_samples) are the minimum number of samples for each node.   Changed in version 0.18: Added float values for fractions.   
min_weight_fraction_leaffloat, default=0.0 

The minimum weighted fraction of the sum total of weights (of all the input samples) required to be at a leaf node. Samples have equal weight when sample_weight is not provided.  
max_featuresint, float or {“auto”, “sqrt”, “log2”}, default=None 

The number of features to consider when looking for the best split:  If int, then consider max_features features at each split. If float, then max_features is a fraction and int(max_features * n_features) features are considered at each split. If “auto”, then max_features=sqrt(n_features). If “sqrt”, then max_features=sqrt(n_features). If “log2”, then max_features=log2(n_features). If None, then max_features=n_features.  Note: the search for a split does not stop until at least one valid partition of the node samples is found, even if it requires to effectively inspect more than max_features features.  
random_stateint, RandomState instance or None, default=None 

Controls the randomness of the estimator. The features are always randomly permuted at each split, even if splitter is set to "best". When max_features < n_features, the algorithm will select max_features at random at each split before finding the best split among them. But the best found split may vary across different runs, even if max_features=n_features. That is the case, if the improvement of the criterion is identical for several splits and one split has to be selected at random. To obtain a deterministic behaviour during fitting, random_state has to be fixed to an integer. See Glossary for details.  
max_leaf_nodesint, default=None 

Grow a tree with max_leaf_nodes in best-first fashion. Best nodes are defined as relative reduction in impurity. If None then unlimited number of leaf nodes.  
min_impurity_decreasefloat, default=0.0 

A node will be split if this split induces a decrease of the impurity greater than or equal to this value. The weighted impurity decrease equation is the following: N_t / N * (impurity - N_t_R / N_t * right_impurity
                    - N_t_L / N_t * left_impurity)
 where N is the total number of samples, N_t is the number of samples at the current node, N_t_L is the number of samples in the left child, and N_t_R is the number of samples in the right child. N, N_t, N_t_R and N_t_L all refer to the weighted sum, if sample_weight is passed.  New in version 0.19.   
min_impurity_splitfloat, default=0 

Threshold for early stopping in tree growth. A node will split if its impurity is above the threshold, otherwise it is a leaf.  Deprecated since version 0.19: min_impurity_split has been deprecated in favor of min_impurity_decrease in 0.19. The default value of min_impurity_split has changed from 1e-7 to 0 in 0.23 and it will be removed in 1.0 (renaming of 0.25). Use min_impurity_decrease instead.   
class_weightdict, list of dict or “balanced”, default=None 

Weights associated with classes in the form {class_label: weight}. If None, all classes are supposed to have weight one. For multi-output problems, a list of dicts can be provided in the same order as the columns of y. Note that for multioutput (including multilabel) weights should be defined for each class of every column in its own dict. For example, for four-class multilabel classification weights should be [{0: 1, 1: 1}, {0: 1, 1: 5}, {0: 1, 1: 1}, {0: 1, 1: 1}] instead of [{1:1}, {2:5}, {3:1}, {4:1}]. The “balanced” mode uses the values of y to automatically adjust weights inversely proportional to class frequencies in the input data as n_samples / (n_classes * np.bincount(y)) For multi-output, the weights of each column of y will be multiplied. Note that these weights will be multiplied with sample_weight (passed through the fit method) if sample_weight is specified.  
ccp_alphanon-negative float, default=0.0 

Complexity parameter used for Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning. The subtree with the largest cost complexity that is smaller than ccp_alpha will be chosen. By default, no pruning is performed. See Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning for details.  New in version 0.22.     Attributes 
 
classes_ndarray of shape (n_classes,) or list of ndarray 

The classes labels (single output problem), or a list of arrays of class labels (multi-output problem).  
feature_importances_ndarray of shape (n_features,) 

Return the feature importances.  
max_features_int 

The inferred value of max_features.  
n_classes_int or list of int 

The number of classes (for single output problems), or a list containing the number of classes for each output (for multi-output problems).  
n_features_int 

The number of features when fit is performed.  
n_outputs_int 

The number of outputs when fit is performed.  
tree_Tree instance 

The underlying Tree object. Please refer to help(sklearn.tree._tree.Tree) for attributes of Tree object and Understanding the decision tree structure for basic usage of these attributes.      See also  
DecisionTreeRegressor


A decision tree regressor.    Notes The default values for the parameters controlling the size of the trees (e.g. max_depth, min_samples_leaf, etc.) lead to fully grown and unpruned trees which can potentially be very large on some data sets. To reduce memory consumption, the complexity and size of the trees should be controlled by setting those parameter values. The predict method operates using the numpy.argmax function on the outputs of predict_proba. This means that in case the highest predicted probabilities are tied, the classifier will predict the tied class with the lowest index in classes_. References  
1  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning  
2  
L. Breiman, J. Friedman, R. Olshen, and C. Stone, “Classification and Regression Trees”, Wadsworth, Belmont, CA, 1984.  
3  
T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman. “Elements of Statistical Learning”, Springer, 2009.  
4  
L. Breiman, and A. Cutler, “Random Forests”, https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home.htm   Examples >>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
>>> from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
>>> from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
>>> clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=0)
>>> iris = load_iris()
>>> cross_val_score(clf, iris.data, iris.target, cv=10)
...                             
...
array([ 1.     ,  0.93...,  0.86...,  0.93...,  0.93...,
        0.93...,  0.93...,  1.     ,  0.93...,  1.      ])
 Methods  
apply(X[, check_input]) Return the index of the leaf that each sample is predicted as.  
cost_complexity_pruning_path(X, y[, …]) Compute the pruning path during Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning.  
decision_path(X[, check_input]) Return the decision path in the tree.  
fit(X, y[, sample_weight, check_input, …]) Build a decision tree classifier from the training set (X, y).  
get_depth() Return the depth of the decision tree.  
get_n_leaves() Return the number of leaves of the decision tree.  
get_params([deep]) Get parameters for this estimator.  
predict(X[, check_input]) Predict class or regression value for X.  
predict_log_proba(X) Predict class log-probabilities of the input samples X.  
predict_proba(X[, check_input]) Predict class probabilities of the input samples X.  
score(X, y[, sample_weight]) Return the mean accuracy on the given test data and labels.  
set_params(**params) Set the parameters of this estimator.    
apply(X, check_input=True) [source]
 
Return the index of the leaf that each sample is predicted as.  New in version 0.17.   Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csr_matrix.  
check_inputbool, default=True 

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.    Returns 
 
X_leavesarray-like of shape (n_samples,) 

For each datapoint x in X, return the index of the leaf x ends up in. Leaves are numbered within [0; self.tree_.node_count), possibly with gaps in the numbering.     
  
cost_complexity_pruning_path(X, y, sample_weight=None) [source]
 
Compute the pruning path during Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning. See Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning for details on the pruning process.  Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The training input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csc_matrix.  
yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs) 

The target values (class labels) as integers or strings.  
sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None 

Sample weights. If None, then samples are equally weighted. Splits that would create child nodes with net zero or negative weight are ignored while searching for a split in each node. Splits are also ignored if they would result in any single class carrying a negative weight in either child node.    Returns 
 
ccp_pathBunch 

Dictionary-like object, with the following attributes.  
ccp_alphasndarray 

Effective alphas of subtree during pruning.  
impuritiesndarray 

Sum of the impurities of the subtree leaves for the corresponding alpha value in ccp_alphas.       
  
decision_path(X, check_input=True) [source]
 
Return the decision path in the tree.  New in version 0.18.   Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csr_matrix.  
check_inputbool, default=True 

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.    Returns 
 
indicatorsparse matrix of shape (n_samples, n_nodes) 

Return a node indicator CSR matrix where non zero elements indicates that the samples goes through the nodes.     
  
property feature_importances_  
Return the feature importances. The importance of a feature is computed as the (normalized) total reduction of the criterion brought by that feature. It is also known as the Gini importance. Warning: impurity-based feature importances can be misleading for high cardinality features (many unique values). See sklearn.inspection.permutation_importance as an alternative.  Returns 
 
feature_importances_ndarray of shape (n_features,) 

Normalized total reduction of criteria by feature (Gini importance).     
  
fit(X, y, sample_weight=None, check_input=True, X_idx_sorted='deprecated') [source]
 
Build a decision tree classifier from the training set (X, y).  Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The training input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csc_matrix.  
yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs) 

The target values (class labels) as integers or strings.  
sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None 

Sample weights. If None, then samples are equally weighted. Splits that would create child nodes with net zero or negative weight are ignored while searching for a split in each node. Splits are also ignored if they would result in any single class carrying a negative weight in either child node.  
check_inputbool, default=True 

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.  
X_idx_sorteddeprecated, default=”deprecated” 

This parameter is deprecated and has no effect. It will be removed in 1.1 (renaming of 0.26).  Deprecated since version 0.24.     Returns 
 
selfDecisionTreeClassifier 

Fitted estimator.     
  
get_depth() [source]
 
Return the depth of the decision tree. The depth of a tree is the maximum distance between the root and any leaf.  Returns 
 
self.tree_.max_depthint 

The maximum depth of the tree.     
  
get_n_leaves() [source]
 
Return the number of leaves of the decision tree.  Returns 
 
self.tree_.n_leavesint 

Number of leaves.     
  
get_params(deep=True) [source]
 
Get parameters for this estimator.  Parameters 
 
deepbool, default=True 

If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.    Returns 
 
paramsdict 

Parameter names mapped to their values.     
  
predict(X, check_input=True) [source]
 
Predict class or regression value for X. For a classification model, the predicted class for each sample in X is returned. For a regression model, the predicted value based on X is returned.  Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csr_matrix.  
check_inputbool, default=True 

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.    Returns 
 
yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs) 

The predicted classes, or the predict values.     
  
predict_log_proba(X) [source]
 
Predict class log-probabilities of the input samples X.  Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csr_matrix.    Returns 
 
probandarray of shape (n_samples, n_classes) or list of n_outputs such arrays if n_outputs > 1 

The class log-probabilities of the input samples. The order of the classes corresponds to that in the attribute classes_.     
  
predict_proba(X, check_input=True) [source]
 
Predict class probabilities of the input samples X. The predicted class probability is the fraction of samples of the same class in a leaf.  Parameters 
 
X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

The input samples. Internally, it will be converted to dtype=np.float32 and if a sparse matrix is provided to a sparse csr_matrix.  
check_inputbool, default=True 

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.    Returns 
 
probandarray of shape (n_samples, n_classes) or list of n_outputs such arrays if n_outputs > 1 

The class probabilities of the input samples. The order of the classes corresponds to that in the attribute classes_.     
  
score(X, y, sample_weight=None) [source]
 
Return the mean accuracy on the given test data and labels. In multi-label classification, this is the subset accuracy which is a harsh metric since you require for each sample that each label set be correctly predicted.  Parameters 
 
Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features) 

Test samples.  
yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs) 

True labels for X.  
sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None 

Sample weights.    Returns 
 
scorefloat 

Mean accuracy of self.predict(X) wrt. y.     
  
set_params(**params) [source]
 
Set the parameters of this estimator. The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as Pipeline). The latter have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.  Parameters 
 
**paramsdict 

Estimator parameters.    Returns 
 
selfestimator instance 

Estimator instance.     
 
 Examples using sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier
 
  Classifier comparison  

  Plot the decision surface of a decision tree on the iris dataset  

  Post pruning decision trees with cost complexity pruning  

  Understanding the decision tree structure  

  Plot the decision boundaries of a VotingClassifier  

  Two-class AdaBoost  

  Multi-class AdaBoosted Decision Trees  

  Discrete versus Real AdaBoost  

  Plot the decision surfaces of ensembles of trees on the iris dataset  

  Demonstration of multi-metric evaluation on cross_val_score and GridSearchCV