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

For more information on this research see: Comparison and Analysis of the Effectiveness of Linear Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest Models for Health Insurance Premium Forecasting.

Logistic regression is a powerful technique for fitting models to data with a binary response variable, but the models are difficult to interpret if collinearity, nonlinearity, or interactions are ...

Several approaches can be taken to predict case membership in the classes of a dependent variable. Classification and regression trees (CART) analysis has been cited repeatedly as a powerful ...