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304 8. Tree-Based Methods<br />

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FIGURE 8.1. For the Hitters data, a regression tree for predicting the log<br />

salary of a baseball player, based on the number of years that he has played in<br />

the major leagues and the number of hits that he made in the previous year. At a<br />

given internal node, the label (of the form X j

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