Letter to the Editor: On the term ‘interaction’ and related phrases in the literature on Random Forests

In an interesting and quite exhaustive review on Random Forests (RF) methodology in bioinformatics Touw et al. address—among other topics—the problem of the detection of interactions between variables based on RF methodology. We feel that some important statistical concepts, such as ‘interaction’, ‘...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, Janitza, Silke, Hapfelmeier, Alexander, Van Steen, Kristel, Strobl, Carolin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364067/