Robustness of Random Forest-based gene selection methods

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kursa, Miron Bartosz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MICROARRAY DATA; MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL SELECTION; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; RANDOM FOREST METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

GENES;

FILICOPHYTA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DECISION TREES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892381665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-8     Document Type: Article

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