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DOC Update tree.rst about lack of support of categorical data (scikit-learn#18106)
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- The cost of using the tree (i.e., predicting data) is logarithmic in the
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number of data points used to train the tree.
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- Able to handle both numerical and categorical data. Other techniques
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are usually specialised in analysing datasets that have only one type
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- Able to handle both numerical and categorical data. However scikit-learn
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implementation does not support categorical variables for now. Other
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techniques are usually specialised in analysing datasets that have only one type
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of variable. See :ref:`algorithms <tree_algorithms>` for more
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information.
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