Re: [R] Concern with randomForest

2009-04-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
It's not nodesize in the formula, but var(y) (with divisor n, not n-1). It's sort of like the adjusted R-squared (because it uses mean squares instead of sum of squares), but uses the OOB estimate of MSE. If there's very little or no explanatory power in the predictor variables, this statistic wou

[R] Concern with randomForest

2009-04-06 Thread Ryan Harrigan
Hi all, When running a randomForest run using the following command: forestplas=randomForest(Prev~.,data=plas,ntree=20) print(forestplas) I get the following result: Call: randomForest(formula = Prev ~ ., data = plas, ntree = 2e+05, importance = TRUE) Type of random fore