Investigations of Variable Importance Measures Within Random Forests

Random Forests (RF) (Breiman 2001; Breiman and Cutler 2004) is a completely nonparametric statistical learning procedure that may be used for regression analysis and. A feature of RF that is drawing a lot of attention is the novel algorithm that is used to evaluate the relative importance of the pre...

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Main Author: Merrill, Andrew C.
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@USU 2009
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7078
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8179&context=etd