Gini Impurity

What is Gini Impurity?

Gini Impurity measures how frequent a randomly chosen element from a set would be incorrectly labeled. It is a faster alternative to Entropy for splitting Decision Trees.

Where did the term "Gini Impurity" come from?

Standard metric for CART algorithms.

How is "Gini Impurity" used today?

Default splitting criterion in Scikit-Learn.

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