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### Getting Information out of Blackbox Models - RandomForest / XGBoost [duplicate]

I have been working at a new company for around 4 months now as a statistical modeling analyst, and the existing data science manager and modeling analysts are very familiar with regression techniques,...
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### Random Forests interpretability [duplicate]

I have been using the sklearn RandomForestClassifier to solve a binary classification problem. For a particular sample prediction, I would like to be able to know ...
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### How can I “see” the algorithm that my random forest model is using [duplicate]

I'd like to know if, and how, it's possible to actually "see" the algorithm that is powering my random forest model. I find this hard to explain but let me put it this way. The model can spit out a ...
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### How to actually plot a sample tree from randomForest::getTree()? [closed]

Anyone got library or code suggestions on how to actually plot a couple of sample trees from: getTree(rfobj, k, labelVar=TRUE) (Yes I know you're not supposed ...
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### Relative variable importance for Boosting

I'm looking for an explanation of how relative variable importance is computed in Gradient Boosted Trees that is not overly general/simplistic like: The measures are based on the number of times a ...
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### Ideas for outputting a prediction equation for Random Forests

I've read through the following posts that answered the question I was going to ask: Use Random Forest model to make predictions from sensor data Decision tree for output prediction Here's what I'...
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### How to make Random Forests more interpretable?

Are there any methods that one could utilize to make Random Forest more interpretable? Random Forest performs much better than CART but it is a lot less interpretable.
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### Visualizing C5.0 Decision Tree? [closed]

Is there a direct way to visualize a c5.0 decision tree? Here my code: ...
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### WEKA: Visualize combined trees of random forest classifier

I have a small data set consisting of 385 entries and around 200 attributes. Because I want to apply attribute selection and because of the limited size of my data set, I got the advice to use the ...
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### Is there a method to plot the output of a random forest in R?

Nice and simple. I've spent two hours googling, reading cross validated, and several r blogs to attempt to find a simple method of outputting the representative tree in R. I was attempting to ...
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### randomForest in R for classification

I am trying to use a random forest model in R ...
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### Random Forest - how to know if variables affect positively or negatively

I'm running a RandomForest in R on a set of data with many variables. Using varImpPlot() I know how important is each variable ...
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### Can we make Random Forest 100% interpretable by fixing the seed?

Say I want to "visualize" in some way Random Forest (or make it implementable). All of my points come from the idea of fixing the seeds. Let $z_1$ be the seed in the creation of boostrapped training ...