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ESANN
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Random Forests Feature Selection with K-PLS: Detecting Ischemia from Magnetocardiograms
Random Forests were introduced by Breiman for feature (variable) selection and improved predictions for decision tree models. The resulting model is often superior to AdaBoost and ...
Long Han, Mark J. Embrechts, Boleslaw K. Szymanski...
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Gene selection and classification of microarray data using random forest
Background: Selection of relevant genes for sample classification is a common task in most gene expression studies, where researchers try to identify the smallest possible set of ...
Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, Sara Alvarez de ...
JAIR
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Spectrum of Variable-Random Trees
In this paper, we show that a continuous spectrum of randomisation exists, in which most existing tree randomisations are only operating around the two ends of the spectrum. That ...
Fei Tony Liu, Kai Ming Ting, Yang Yu, Zhi-Hua Zhou
JCDL
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Disambiguating authors in academic publications using random forests
Users of digital libraries usually want to know the exact author or authors of an article. But different authors may share the same names, either as full names or as initials and...
Pucktada Treeratpituk, C. Lee Giles
FUIN
2010
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13 years 3 days ago
Boruta - A System for Feature Selection
Machine learning methods are often used to classify objects described by hundreds of attributes; in many applications of this kind a great fraction of attributes may be totally irr...
Miron B. Kursa, Aleksander Jankowski, Witold R. Ru...