Letter to the editor: Stability of Random Forest importance measures

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-89

  Calle, M Luz ^a   Urrea, Víctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Importance measures; Random Forest; Ranking; Stability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LETTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING;

EID: 79551641353     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbq011     Document Type: Letter

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