Bias in random forest variable importance measures: Illustrations, sources and a solution
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-01-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/25 |