Bias in Random Forest Variable Importance Measures: Illustrations, Sources and a Solution
Variable importance measures for random forests have been receiving increased attention as a means of variable selection in many classification tasks in bioinformatics and related scientific fields, for instance to select a subset of genetic markers relevant for the prediction of a certain disease....
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Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
2006
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| Online Access: | http://epub.wu.ac.at/1274/1/document.pdf |