arXiv Machine Learning By Guancheng Zhou, Haiping Xu, Jason Liu, Donghui Yan

Correcting Variable Importance Scored by Random Forests

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arXiv:2606. 10770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variable importance produced by Random Forests (RF) is used widely in statistical data analysis, and has played an important role in a variety of tasks such as assisting model interpretation, model selection and diagnosis, and cost-bounded learning etc.

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