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Describe at least one way to overcome the problem of overfitting when constructing decision trees. There are typically two ways to overcome the problem of overfitting in decision trees: Restrict the splitting to split only when the split is useful. Allow unrestricted splitting and then prune the resulting tree where it makes unwarranted distinctions.

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