Does CART algorithm takes into account in the order of the set of attributes?

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when using matlab command 'fitctree' for classification purpose,  and I change the order of the attributes I do not find the same Tree and thus the same classificaiton error? why? CART algorithm does take account on the attributes firstly introduced ?

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Check to see if you have nominal variables with more than a reasonable number of levels. If that is the case then a heuristic is applied to select the best split. One such heuristic is to group levels on left to right, and that might affect the order. Anyway, it is reasonable to expect that the order of levels should not affect the output.

See this link for detalied explanation on how this is implemented on matlab
matlab documentation.

Does CART algorithm takes into account in the order of the set of attributes?

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