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'''Gini Impurity''' is a measure of statistical dispersion used in the construction of [[Decision Tree|decision trees]]. For a set of items belonging to C classes, the Gini impurity is defined as G = 1 − Σ(pᵢ)², where pᵢ is the fraction of items labeled with class i. A set containing only one class has Gini impurity 0 (pure); a set with classes in equal proportion has maximum impurity. The measure quantifies the probability that a randomly chosen element would be incorrectly labeled if it were randomly labeled according to the distribution of labels in the subset.

Gini impurity is closely related to [[Information Gain|information gain]] (which uses entropy) and often produces similar splits. The choice between Gini and entropy is typically a matter of computational convenience: Gini is slightly faster to compute because it avoids the logarithm. But the deeper difference is conceptual. Entropy is derived from information theory; Gini is derived from economics. The fact that both work suggests that the choice of impurity measure is less important than the tree-growing algorithm's capacity to find good splits. The impurity measure is a lens, not a law.

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