Decision tree regression is a fundamental technique that can be used by itself, and is also the basis for powerful ensemble techniques (a collection of many decision trees), notably, AdaBoost ...

What are the advantages of logistic regression over decision trees? This question was originally answered on Quora by Claudia Perlich.

There are roughly a dozen major regression techniques, and each technique has several variations. Among the most common techniques are linear regression, linear ridge regression, k-nearest neighbors ...