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So I've been working with Random Forests ( R library is randomForest) and I curious if Random Forests could be applied to classifying on a real time basis. For instance lets say I've scored fraud from a group of transactions. If I want to score any new incoming transactions for fraud could Random Forests be used in that context. Linear Regression is nice in that it is very easy to

Hello, I am trying to explore the use of random forests for classification and am certain about the interpretation of the importance measurements. When having the option "importance = T" in the randomForest call, the resulting 'importance' element matrix has four columns with the following headings: 0 - mean raw importance score of variable x for class 0 (where

Dear Random Forests gurus, I have a question about R^2 provided by randomForest (for regression). I don't succeed in finding this information. In the help file for randomForest under "Value" it says: rsq: (regression only) - "pseudo R-squared'': 1 - mse / Var(y). Could someone please explain in somewhat more detail how exactly R^2 is calculated? Is "mse"

Hi all, I have a dataset where each point is assigned to a class A, B, C, or D. Each point is also assigned to a study site. Each study site is coded with a number ranging between 1-100. This information is stored in the vector studySites. I want to run randomForests using stratified sampling, so I chose the option strata = factor(studySites) But I am not sure how to control the number of

Gracias Carlos y Javier, ntrees es el nº de árboles y treesize sus respectivos tamaños (nº de nodos) ntree: Number of trees to grow. This should not be set to too small ...... treesize: Size of trees (number of nodes) in and ensemble. Puse 1000 árboles (ntree=1000), si, pero la función treesize te da el nº de nodos: treesize(RFfit, terminal=TRUE) me da un vector de 1000 elementos (uno

Hello R Gurus, I am perplexed by the different results I obtained when I ran code like this: set.seed(100) test1<-randomForest(BinaryY~., data=Xvars, trees=51, mtry=5, seed=200) predict(test1, newdata=cbind(NewBinaryY, NewXs), type="response") and this code: set.seed(100) test2<-randomForest(BinaryY~., data=Xvars, trees=51, mtry=5, seed=200, xtest=NewXs, ytest=NewBinarY) The

Buenas tardes a todos. El paquete randomForest tiene la función treesize, que es el nº de nodos. Me dan valores realmente elevados (en torno a 1000), y eso me parece extraño. ¿sabéis si es así? Gracias, Manuel -- Dr Manuel Mendoza Department of Biogeography and Global Change National Museum of Natural History (MNCN) Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC) C/ Serrano 115bis, 28006 MADRID Spain

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of an R function/R code to plot bivariate (3 dimensional) partial dependence plots in random forests (randomForest package). It is apparently possible using the rgl package (http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E088/173/appendix-C.htm) or there may be a more direct function such as the pairplot() in MART (multiple additive regression trees)? Many

Si, Carlos. Yo hago lo mismo, pero esos mismos numeritos salen enormes. > treesize(RFfit) [1] 4304 4302 4311 4319 4343 4298 4298 4311 4349 4327 4331 4317 4294 4321 4283 4362 [17] 4300 4330 4266 4331 4308 4352 4294 4315 4372 4349 4331 4347 4329 4348 4298 4335 [33] 4346 4396 4345 4313 4293 4276 4353 4272 4304 4325 4317 4336 4308 4351 4374 4324 [49] 4386 4359 4311 4346 4300

Hi, I had two questions regarding random forests for regression. 1) I have read the original paper by Breiman as well as a paper dicussing an application of random forests and it appears that the one of the nice features of this technique is good predictive ability. However I have some data with which I have generated a linear model using lm(). I can get an RMS error of 0.43 and an R^2 of

Muchas gracias Carlos, como siempre. Es raro que se me pasase. En su momento miré todos los argumentos del RF, como hago siempre, pero ese lo había olvidado. La verdad es que funcionaba estupendamente, pero me parecía extraño. Aunque dado que los RF no sobreajustan, no hay problema con que sus árboles sean todo lo grandes que quieras. Lo he testado con una base de datos externa y explica

Hi, I am currently writing code to input a few thousand files, run them through the Random Forests package, and then output corresponding results. When I use the code below: zz<-textConnection("ex.lm.out", "w") sink(zz)

Hi, I have done an analysis using 'rpart' to construct a Classification Tree. I am wanting to retain the output in tree form so that it is easily interpretable. However, I am wanting to compare the 'accuracy' of the tree to a Random Forest to estimate how much predictive ability is lost by using one simple tree. My understanding is that the error automatically displayed by the two

Hello R-user! I am running R 2.7.0 on a Power Book (Tiger). (I am still R and statistics beginner) I try to find the most important variables to divide my dataset as given in a categorical variable using randomForest. Is randomForest() able to deal with count data? Or is there no difference because only the ranks are used in the trees? Thanks in advance Birgit Birgit Lemcke Institut f?r

Hi, I have been using some code for multivariate random forests. The output from this code is a list object with all the same values as from randomForest, but the model object is, of course, not of the class randomForest. So, I was hoping to modify the code for predict.randomForest to work for predicting the multivariate model to new data. This is my first attempt at modifying code from a

Hello! I think I am relatively clear on how predictor importance (the first one) is calculated by Random Forests for a Classification tree: Importance of predictor P1 when the response variable is categorical: 1. For out-of-bag (oob) cases, randomly permute their values on predictor P1 and then put them down the tree 2. For a given tree, subtract the number of votes for the correct class in the

Dear all, I would like to use a tree regression method to analyze my dataset. I am interested in the fact that random forests creates in-bag and out-of-bag datasets, but I also need an estimate of support for each split. That seems hard to do in random forests since each tree is grown using a subset of the predictor variables. I was thinking of setting mtry = number of predictor variables,

Hello, I am using the R randomForest package to classify variable stars. I have a training set of 1755 stars described by (too) many variables. Some of these variables are highly correlated. I believe that I understand how randomForest works and how the variable importance are evaluated (through variable permutations). Here are my questions. 1) variable importance error? Is there any ways

Guys, I used Random Forest with a couple of data sets I had to predict for binary response. In all the cases, the AUC of the training set is coming to be 1. Is this always the case with random forests? Can someone please clarify this? I have given a simple example, first using logistic regression and then using random forests to explain the problem. AUC of the random forest is coming out to be

Hi all! The randomForest in R enables us to prune the trees using the nodesize feature where we can stop splitting a node if it contains less than the specified no.of of records/entities at that node. However is there a way to stop the tree growing after a specified number of levels. To be more clear on what I mean by a level. Level 0 is the parent node, Level 1 has 2 daughter nodes, Level 2 has