within-node variance in CRT

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within-node variance in CRT

John Amora
Hi all,
 
I am just intrigued why the within-node variance that CRT uses for the impurity measure used n as its divisor, not n-1.  I want to hear your comments.
 
Thank you.
Johnny 


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