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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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 |