>> Would you please confirm that it is a bootstrap sample with >> replacement?
Someone should note that the definition of a bootstrap sample is a sample with replacement (usually of size n). I've read quite a few papers where they claim to be using the bootstrap. Upon further review (sometimes to the code) they often are doing permutation testing-type randomization. This is mostly in biological journals. There are also at least paper that describe the "out of box" random forests error rate... Max ______________________________________________ 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.