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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Main Authors: Hothorn Torsten, Zeileis Achim, Boulesteix Anne-Laure, Strobl Carolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/25