R help - Jun 2014 - random forest application

Hi All,

Is anyone using random forest for predicting? Some people claimed that it will
give more accurate result than decision tree. But considering it builds 500(by
default) full trees, is it worth to use random forest to predict instead of
decision tree? What typical applications of this algorithm?

Thank you!

Regards,
Yan

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Hi,

This is not an R question, so really not appropriate for the list.

The answer depends on what "worth it" means to you.

There are many applications:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22random+forest%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C39&as_sdtp
Sarah

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Li, Yan <Yan_Li at ibi.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anyone using random forest for predicting? Some people claimed that it
will give more accurate result than decision tree. But considering it builds
500(by default) full trees, is it worth to use random forest to predict instead
of decision tree? What typical applications of this algorithm?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Yan
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