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Comparison Of Random Forests And Cforest: Variable Importance Measures And Prediction Accuracies, Rong Xia
Comparison Of Random Forests And Cforest: Variable Importance Measures And Prediction Accuracies, Rong Xia
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Random forests are ensembles of trees that give accurate predictions for regression, classification and clustering problems. The CART tree, the base learn er employed by random forests, has been criticized because of bias in the selection of splitting variables. The performance of random forests is suspect due to this criticism. A new implementation of random forests, Cforest, which is claimed to outperform random forests in both predictive power and variable importance measures , was developed based on Ctree, an implementation of conditional inference trees.
We address the underlying mechanism of random forests and Cforest in this report. Comparison of random …