Editing Decision table (section)

{{Short description|Table specifying actions based on conditions}}
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Play golf dataset
! colspan="4" style="background:red;" | Independent variables
! Dep. var
|- 
! style="background:yellow;" | Outlook || style="background:yellow;" | Temperature || style="background:yellow;" | Humidity || style="background:yellow;" | Windy || style="background:yellow;" | Play
|-
|sunny || 85 || 85 || FALSE || Don't play 
|-
|sunny || 80 || 90 || TRUE || Don't play
|-
|overcast || 83 || 78 || FALSE || Play
|-
|rain || 70 || 96 || FALSE || Play
|-
|rain || 68 || 80 || FALSE || Play
|-
|rain || 65 || 70 || TRUE || Don't play
|-
|overcast || 64 || 65 || TRUE || Play
|-
|sunny || 72 || 95 || FALSE || Don't play  
|-
|sunny || 69 || 70 || FALSE || Play
|-
|rain || 75 || 80 || FALSE || Play
|-
|sunny || 75 || 70 || TRUE || Play
|-
|overcast || 72 || 90 || TRUE || Play
|-
|overcast || 81 || 75 || FALSE || Play
|-
|rain || 71 || 80 || TRUE || Don't play
|}
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'''Decision tables''' are a concise visual representation for specifying which actions to perform depending on given conditions. Decision table is the term used for a [[Control table]] or [[State-transition table]] in the field of [[Business process modeling]]; they are usually formatted as the transpose of the way they are formatted in [[Software engineering]].