R help - Apr 2004 - Extracting the MSE and % Variance from RandomForest

Several ways:

1. Read ?randomForest, especially the `Value' section.
2. Look at str(myforest.rf).
3. Look at print.randomForest.

If the forest has 100 trees, then the mse and rsq are vectors with 100
elements each, the i-th element being the mse (or rsq) of the forest
consisting of the first i trees.  So the last element is the mse (or rsq) of
the whole forest.

HTH,
Andy
> From: David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
> 
> I'm almost embarrassed to ask... Almost!
> 
> I've typed "names(myforest.rf)" to see that lots of 
> interesting info can be
> called out bit by bit...
> 
> But I can't seem to figure out how to just grab one or two 
> the summary stats
> so I can save it out into a table alongside the prediction 
> for the new data.
> 
> Specifically, though I see "rsq" for all the trees, and ditto 
> for "mse",
> (here's the embarrassing part) how do I just save the mse or 
> % Var for the
> whole forest? I really can't find it, not for lack of 
> looking. Just clearly
> not in the right place!
> 
> Or do I need to calculate it somehow?
> 
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AH!

That's the piece. I didn't realize it was a sort of running total. That
makes sense. 

On 4/22/04 20:46, "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> consisting of the first i trees.  So the last element is the mse (or rsq)
of
> the whole forest.
-- 
David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
Outlier Consulting & Development
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