Decision list
# Decision list

Decision lists are a representation for Boolean functions which can be easily learnable from examples. Single term decision lists are more expressive than disjunctions and conjunctions; however, 1-term decision lists are less expressive than the general disjunctive normal form and the conjunctive normal form.

The language specified by a k-length decision list includes as a subset the language specified by a k-depth decision tree.

Learning decision lists can be used for attribute efficient learning.

## Definition

A decision list (DL) of length r is of the form:

where $f_i$ is the ith formula and $b_i$ is the ith boolean for $i\in \{1...r\}$. The last if-then-else is the default case, which means formula $f_r$ is always equal to true. A k-DL is a decision list where all of formulas have at most k terms. Sometimes "decision list" is used to refer to a 1-DL, where all of the formulas are either a variable or its negation.

