Sir, This query is related to randomForest regression using R. I have a dataset called qsar.arff which I use as my training set and then I run the following function -
rf=randomForest(x=train,y=trainy,xtest=train,ytest=trainy,ntree=500) where train is a matrix of predictors without the column to be predicted(the target column), trainy is the target column.I feed the same data for xtest and ytest too as shown. On verifying I found, rf$mse[500] and rf$test$mse[500] are different(the r-squares are also different).The predicted values of the training target column and testing target column are also different. Should this happen , since I am using the training dataset as the testing dataset? I expected that the test and training predictions would be the same. It would be helpful if you could point out if I am missing something. Thanks for the help. Regards, Shameek Ghosh [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.