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Enhance Decision Tree documentation with math, use cases, and examples#13611

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Enhance Decision Tree documentation with math, use cases, and examples#13611
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  • Added comprehensive mathematical foundation explaining MSE and tree splitting
  • Included practical use cases (house prices, stock forecasting, customer lifetime value, etc.)
  • Listed advantages and limitations of decision trees
  • Enhanced class and method docstrings with detailed explanations
  • Added type hints for better code clarity
  • Included additional practical example (house price prediction)
  • Improved code documentation following repository guidelines

Closes #12867

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  • Add an algorithm?
  • Fix a bug or typo in an existing algorithm?
  • Add or change doctests? -- Note: Please avoid changing both code and tests in a single pull request.
  • Documentation change?

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  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • This pull request is all my own work -- I have not plagiarized.
  • I know that pull requests will not be merged if they fail the automated tests.
  • This PR only changes one algorithm file. To ease review, please open separate PRs for separate algorithms.
  • All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory.
  • All filenames are in all lowercase characters with no spaces or dashes.
  • All functions and variable names follow Python naming conventions.
  • All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints.
  • All functions have doctests that pass the automated testing.
  • All new algorithms include at least one URL that points to Wikipedia or another similar explanation.
  • If this pull request resolves one or more open issues then the description above includes the issue number(s) with a closing keyword: "Fixes #ISSUE-NUMBER".

- Added comprehensive mathematical foundation explaining MSE and tree splitting
- Included practical use cases (house prices, stock forecasting, customer lifetime value, etc.)
- Listed advantages and limitations of decision trees
- Enhanced class and method docstrings with detailed explanations
- Added type hints for better code clarity
- Included additional practical example (house price prediction)
- Improved code documentation following repository guidelines

Related to TheAlgorithms#12867
@algorithms-keeper algorithms-keeper bot added enhancement This PR modified some existing files awaiting reviews This PR is ready to be reviewed labels Oct 20, 2025
@algorithms-keeper algorithms-keeper bot added the tests are failing Do not merge until tests pass label Oct 20, 2025
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