The ternary search tree (TST) is the champion of data structure acrobatics — it finds all keys having a given prefix, suffix, or infix. It even finds those keys that closely match a given ...

Small trees in the shade of the canopy are able to thrive during dry spells in the Brazilian Amazon, but those exposed to the sun in forest clearings suffer.

Decision trees often give simple descriptions of complex, nonlinear relationships between several predictors and a univariate or multivariate response. But if the response is a high-dimensional vector ...