[R] Decision trees take long or throws memory limit message

2015-01-30 Thread Kim C.
Hi everyone, I try making decision trees and random forest using the packages rpart and party. I'm already stuck at t he first step. Each time when I enter the code either 1. R takes more than an hour. I haven't waited long enough to see if there's a result but it doesn't look like it! When I

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-16 Thread Ricardo Pietrobon
not quite an R package, but one way of taking advantage of R would be to use something like treeplan http://goo.gl/wHsb6 along with RExcel http://goo.gl/ToD77 On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:34 AM, stefan.d...@gmail.com < stefan.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Noah, > > I did ask basically the same questi

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-14 Thread stefan.d...@gmail.com
Hi Noah, I did ask basically the same question about a year ago and there wasn't anything around (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e14/help/11/06/3651.html) Although I agree that R would be very suitable for this kind of calculations exist. I guess one reason is that a decision tree is not really

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-14 Thread Ricardo Pietrobon
hi Noah, you might want to look at http://goo.gl/KqXpJ -- haven't played with it, and was actually surprised because whenever i think about decision trees -- which as you know are completely different from CART type of models -- i tend to think of excel add-ons or treeage. interested in learning wh

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-12 Thread Sarah Goslee
Regardless of what we should or should not expect regular list contributors to know about all possible statistical areas, going to http://www.rseek.organd searching for cost effectiveness returns leads to at least three packages that might do what you want. Sarah >> > >> One of the team members s

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-11 Thread Noah Silverman
Bert, I AM a statistician. Your lack of familiarity with this particular subset of stats is no reason to insult me or my posting. "Cost Effectiveness" is a very standard field of study in health care and epidemiology. The methods and models are common and well defined. I did not ask for hel

Re: [R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Noah: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Noah Silverman wrote: > Hello, > > I was just assigned to perform a cost effectiveness study in healthcare.  We > are studying the cost effectiveness of a proposed diagnostic vs. current > screening procedures. -- Please! -- Do you think this really desc

[R] Decision Trees or Markov Models for Cost Effectiveness

2012-06-11 Thread Noah Silverman
Hello, I was just assigned to perform a cost effectiveness study in healthcare. We are studying the cost effectiveness of a proposed diagnostic vs. current screening procedures. One of the team members suggest a commercial software package called "TreeAge Pro". Looking at the description, it

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-11-29 Thread ianjacob
Hi, Unfortunately I do not have an answer to this question yet, but it is something I'm currently examining. We're hoping to construct a template for health economic evaluation using decision tree (eventually working up to more complex modelling methodologies). I'll keep you posted on our progress

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-09 Thread stefan.d...@gmail.com
>> Anupam. >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Jonathan Daily >> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:47 PM >> To: stefan.d...@gmail.com >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subjec

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
ssage- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Jonathan Daily > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:47 PM > To: stefan.d...@gmail.com > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R? > >

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread Anupam
f Jonathan Daily Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:47 PM To: stefan.d...@gmail.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R? So TreeAge fits models but won't predict from them? That seems like bizarre behavior. I suppose I would recommend, then, looking at

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread stefan.d...@gmail.com
TreeAge works just fine. But its commercial, thats all... On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > Jon, > >> So TreeAge fits models but won't predict from them? That seems like >> bizarre behavior. > > Nothing bizarre about TreeAge, just a different tool in a different > disicpline.

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread Graham Smith
Jon, So TreeAge fits models but won't predict from them? That seems like > bizarre behavior. > Nothing bizarre about TreeAge, just a different tool in a different disicpline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree Graham [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Daily
and not > construct a "synthetic" tree with exogenously defined decision > nods/rules. Or am I wrong? > > > Thanks and best, > Stefan > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Daily > wrote: >> See packages rpart, randomFores

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread stefan.d...@gmail.com
ote: > See packages rpart, randomForest, party. > > Also, typing "R Decision Trees" produced good google results. > > http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=R+Decision+Trees > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:02 AM, stefan.d...@gmail.com > wrote

Re: [R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Daily
See packages rpart, randomForest, party. Also, typing "R Decision Trees" produced good google results. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=R+Decision+Trees On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:02 AM, stefan.d...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > this qu

[R] Decision Trees /Decision Analysis with R?

2011-06-08 Thread stefan.d...@gmail.com
Hello, this question is a bit out of the blue. I am a big R fan and user and in my new job I do some decision modeling (mostly health economics). For that decision trees are often used (I guess the most classic example is the investment decision A, B, and C with different probabilities, what is t

[R] Decision Trees

2010-03-29 Thread Per
Hi, Does R have a Decision Tree functionality akin to 'Precision Tree' by Palisade? When I search, I end up with 'rpart' but this does not appear to be what I am looking for. Kind regards, Per Bak Copenhagen __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Decision trees with factors and numericals

2009-11-24 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg wrote: Does any of you know how to make a decision tree when the data set contains factors and numericals? I've got a data frame with 3 columns, where y and x1 are numerical and x2 contains factors. Is it possible to use the rpart package

[R] Decision trees with factors and numericals

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg
Hi all, Does any of you know how to make a decision tree when the data set contains factors and numericals? I've got a data frame with 3 columns, where y and x1 are numerical and x2 contains factors. Is it possible to use the rpart package, and in that case how? Otherwise, is there another

Re: [R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than

2009-10-02 Thread Erik Iverson
ct.org] > On Behalf Of Rajarshi Guha > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33 AM > To: R > Subject: [R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than > > Hi, while working with decision trees and unbalanced data, I came across > the > use of the Hellinger distance as

[R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than

2009-10-02 Thread Rajarshi Guha
Hi, while working with decision trees and unbalanced data, I came across the use of the Hellinger distance as an alternative to information gain [1,2], when dealing with skewed data. Does anybody know of R implementations of this approach to decision trees? Thanks, [1] http://www.cse.nd.edu/Repor

Re: [R] Decision Trees RWeka

2008-06-17 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a question concerning decision trees coming from RWeka : library(RWeka) m =J48(Species~.,data=iris) How could such a decision tree be transferred into a matrix, pretty much in the same fashion, as it is done by getTree()

[R] Decision Trees RWeka

2008-06-17 Thread strinz
Hello, I have a question concerning decision trees coming from RWeka : library(RWeka) m =J48(Species~.,data=iris) How could such a decision tree be transferred into a matrix, pretty much in the same fashion, as it is done by getTree() in library(ofw) library(ofw) data(sr