Intervention in prediction measure: a new approach to assessing variable importance for random forests
Abstract Background Random forests are a popular method in many fields since they can be successfully applied to complex data, with a small sample size, complex interactions and correlations, mixed type predictors, etc. Furthermore, they provide variable importance measures that aid qualitative inte...
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Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017-05-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1650-8 |