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2011 Jan 24
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How to measure/rank ?variable importance when using rpart?
--- included message ---- Thus, my question is: *What common measures exists for ranking/measuring variable importance of participating variables in a CART model? And how can this be computed using R (for example, when using the rpart package)* ---end ---- Consider the following printout from rpart summary(rpart(time ~ age + ph.ecog + pat.karno, data=lung)) Node number 1: 228 observations,