%0 Journal Article %A Munduate del Rio, A. %A Cano Sevilla, Francisco Jose %A PĂ©rez Prados, A. %T Linearity criterion for the selection of an optimal tree. %D 1997 %@ 1863-8279 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58377 %X The aim of this paper is to present a method for selecting the optimal tree among the possible trees that can be generated starting from the a data set. Analysis a quantity criterion is used through the linear combination of the quality measurements of the tree, namely, resubstitution error and linearity. The application of the method leads to a succession of optimal trees, in such a way, that an element of the succession is associated with each possible value of the linear combination's parameter c~. %~