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Explain the concept of information gain in the ClassificationAlgorithms. How is it used to develop a decision tree?

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Before describing information gain please understand theconcept of entropy Entropy is the measurement of how much data ishomogeneous and how much heterogeneous Lower the value of entropymore the data distribution is homogeneous And more the data ishomogeneous    See Answer
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