All, What purpose does the getTree function have in Random Forest? Can you graph it as you can in rpart and can it be interpreted in the same way? Helen Mills Poulos Yale School of Forestry
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2 messages · helen.mills at yale.edu, Liaw, Andy
Graphing: Not really. You might do somw work and get Rgraphviz to produce the tree, but I'm not sure how useful that is. Interpretation: You can read the tree just like any other decision trees. However, remember that the splits are chosen with some randomness, so I'm not sure how much trust I would place on any particular tree. Breiman did not design random forests so that the trees can be interpreted the usual way. Andy From: helen.mills at yale.edu
All, What purpose does the getTree function have in Random Forest? Can you graph it as you can in rpart and can it be interpreted in the same way? Helen Mills Poulos Yale School of Forestry
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