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Abstract
The goal of this article (letter to the editor) is to emphasize the value of exploring ranking stability when using the importance measures, mean decrease accuracy (MDA) and mean decrease Gini (MDG), provided by Random Forest. We illustrate with a real and a simulated example that ranks based on the MDA are unstable to small perturbations of the dataset and ranks based on the MDG provide more robust results.Mesh:
Year: 2010 PMID: 20360022 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbq011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brief Bioinform ISSN: 1467-5463 Impact factor: 11.622