I have been using random forest on a data set with 226 sites and 36 explanatory variables (continuous and categorical). When I use "tune.randomforest" to determine the best value to use in "mtry" there is a fairly consistent and steady decrease in MSE, with the optimum of "mtry" usually equal to 1. Why would that occur, and what does it signify? What I would assume is that most of my explanatory variables have little to no explanatory power. Does that sound about right?
Thanks for any insight that anyone may have. dave ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
