CHAID

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CHAID is a type of decision tree technique, based upon adjusted significance testing (Bonferroni testing). The technique was developed in South Africa and was published in 1980 by Gordon V. Kass, who had completed a PhD thesis on this topic. CHAID can be used for prediction (in a similar fashion to regression analysis, this version of CHAID being originally known as XAID) as well as classification, and for detection of interaction between variables. CHAID stands for CHi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector, based upon a formal extension of the US AID (Automatic Interaction Detector) and THAID (THeta Automatic Interaction Detector) procedures of the 1960s and 70's, which in turn were extensions of earlier research, including that performed in the UK in the 1950s.