wsrf: An R Package for Classification with Scalable Weighted Subspace Random Forests

We describe a parallel implementation in R of the weighted subspace random forest algorithm (Xu, Huang, Williams, Wang, and Ye 2012) available as the wsrf package. A novel variable weighting method is used for variable subspace selection in place of the traditional approach of random variable sampli...

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Main Authors: He Zhao, Graham J. Williams, Joshua Zhexue Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3078