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...two techniques and (b) that comparing the misclassification rates is an appropriate method for comparing the two techniques. Thanks Amy Amelia Koch University of Tasmania School of Geography and Environmental Studies Private Bag 78 Hobart Tasmania, Australia 7001 Ph: +61 3 6226 7454 ajkoch@utas.edu.au [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am planning on using classification trees to build a predictive model for data which includes a random variable. I intend to use the R functions 'rpart' (and potentially also 'randomForest' and 'bagging'). I have a data set with 390 data points. The response variable is binary. There are a large number of variables (>20, both categorical and continuous). The