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describe the similarities between decision trees and random forests.
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decision trees and random forests are both supervised machine learning models that are used for classification problems. both models use a tree-like structure to make decisions. in a decision tree, each node is a decision point and the model descends down the tree until it reaches a leaf node, which is the prediction. a random forest is similar, but instead of a single decision tree, it includes multiple decision trees trained on slightly different data and combined together. the result is a better prediction model with improved accuracy and reduced overfitting.
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