R help - Mar 2010 - how to measure accuracy of regression tree?

Hello,

for constructing regression tree, I am using rpart function.

now after dividing dataset in to training and testing,
I'm using predict for forecasting.

how to measure accuracy of the predicted data?

Thanks and Regards,
Vibha.

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vibha patel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> for constructing regression tree, I am using rpart function.
> 
> now after dividing dataset in to training and testing,
> I'm using predict for forecasting.
Such data splitting yields unreliable validations unless N > 20,000.
Frank
> 
> how to measure accuracy of the predicted data?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vibha.
> 
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