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package org.apache.mahout.df.builder;

import java.util.Random;

import org.apache.mahout.df.data.Data;
import org.apache.mahout.df.node.Node;

/**
 * Abstract base class for TreeBuilders
 */
public interface TreeBuilder {
  
  /**
   * Builds a Decision tree using the training data
   * 
   * @param rng
   *          random-numbers generator
   * @param data
   *          training data
   * @return root Node
   */
  Node build(Random rng, Data data);
  
}
