A parallel Random Forest classifier for R

ECMLS'11 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-5

  Mitchell, Lawrence ^a   Sloan, Terence M ^a   Mewissen, Muriel ^b   Ghazal, Peter ^b   Forster, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END USERS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; MICROARRAY DATA; PARALLEL VERSION; R-FUNCTIONS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION TREES;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 79960963410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1996023.1996024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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