Re: [R] Random Forest for Ecological Prediction under presence of Spatial Autocorrelation

2010-05-25 Thread Andreas Béguin
Thank you very much for this suggestion, I was not aware of this package. Apart from this, is suggestion 2 (changing nodesize attribute) a good way to go? Experimenting with sampsize (suggestion 4) has yielded promising results. Kind regards, Andreas Béguin 2010/5/24 Gabor Grothendieck > You co

Re: [R] Random Forest for Ecological Prediction under presence of Spatial Autocorrelation

2010-05-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You could also try the Boruta package for variable selection. 2010/5/24 Andreas Béguin : > Dear R-help list members, > > I have a statistical question regarding the Random Forest function (RF) as > applied to ecological prediction of species presences and absences. > > RF seems to perform very wel

[R] Random Forest for Ecological Prediction under presence of Spatial Autocorrelation

2010-05-24 Thread Andreas Béguin
Dear R-help list members, I have a statistical question regarding the Random Forest function (RF) as applied to ecological prediction of species presences and absences. RF seems to perform very well for prediction of species ranges or prevalences. However, the problem with my dataset is a high de