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CART: rapart vs bagging

2 messages · Qin Liu, Brian Ripley

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Hi, 

Is here anyone knows the difference between rapart and bagging when grow a
CART tree? 

Thanks

Qin
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Qin Liu wrote:

            
Short answer: `Yes'.

Slightly longer answer: `rapart classification tree' is not something
Google knows about, and bagging is not to do with `grow a tree'.

More informative answer:

Bagging is a method to combine ensembles of classification trees, and
*rpart* is a package in R which does grow and prune classification trees.

CART is the trademark of a commercial program to grow and prune
classification trees.

Put `bagging Breiman' into Google to help you with the concept of bagging,
and then look at package ipred.