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Do Random Forests exhibit prediction bias?
I think this is a straightforward question, although the reasoning behind why or why not may not be. The reason I ask is that I have recently written my own implementation of a RF and although it ...
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How should decision tree splits be implemented when predicting continuous variables?
I'm actually writing an implementation of Random Forests but I believe the question is specific to decision trees (independent of RFs).
So the context is that I'm creating a node in a decision tree ...
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Literature on the algorithm for optimal splitting in the growing of classification trees
In ESL, Section 9.7, there is a paragraph stating that the computation time of a split in the growing of a classification (or regression) tree typically scales like $p N \log N$ where $p$ is the ...
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How does random forest generate the random forest
I am not an expert of random forest but I clearly understand that the key issue with random forest is the (random) tree generation. Can you explain me how the trees are generated? (i.e. What is the ...
