Tree diagram may refer to:
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Tree structure, a way of representing the hierarchical nature of a structure in a graphical form
Mathematics and logic
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Tree diagram (probability theory), a diagram to represent a probability space in probability theory
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Decision tree
A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm that only contains condit ...
, a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences
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Event tree, inductive analytical diagram in which an event is analyzed using Boolean logic
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Game tree, a tree diagram used to find and analyze potential moves in a game
Linguistics
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Language tree, representation of a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
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Parse tree
A parse tree or parsing tree or derivation tree or concrete syntax tree is an ordered, rooted tree that represents the syntactic structure of a string according to some context-free grammar. The term ''parse tree'' itself is used primarily in co ...
, a representation of the syntactic structure of a string according to some formal grammar in linguistics
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Sentence diagram, a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence showing the relationships of phrase structures
Biology
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Dendrogram
A dendrogram is a diagram representing a tree. This diagrammatic representation is frequently used in different contexts:
* in hierarchical clustering, it illustrates the arrangement of the clusters produced by the corresponding analyses.
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, a tree diagram used to illustrate clusters of genes or samples in computational biology
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spec ...
, a branching diagram showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species
Other uses
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Attack tree, conceptual diagrams showing how a target might be attacked
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Fault tree diagram
Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a type of failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is examined. This analysis method is mainly used in safety engineering and reliability engineering to understand how systems can fail, to identify ...
, diagram used in deductive failure analysis in various industries
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Program structure tree, hierarchical diagram that displays the organization of a computer program
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Treemapping
In information visualization and computing, treemapping is a method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures, usually rectangles.
Treemaps display hierarchical ( tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of ...
, a method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures, usually rectangles.
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Tree topology
A tree topology, or star-bus topology, is a hybrid network topology in which star networks are interconnected via bus networks. Tree networks are hierarchical, and each node
In general, a node is a localized swelling (a "knot") or a point of i ...
, a topology based on a hierarchy of nodes in a computer network
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Tree diagram (physics), an acyclic
Feynman diagram, pictorial representations of the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles
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Outliners
An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization. Textual information is contained in discrete sections ca ...
, a common software application that is used to generate tree diagrams
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Network diagram
Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graphs arising from applications such as social network analysis, ca ...
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Tree (disambiguation)
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Descent (disambiguation)
Descent may refer to:
As a noun Genealogy and inheritance
* Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology
* Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
**Pedigree chart or family tree
**Ancestry
**Lineal descendant
**Heritage
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