Re: [R] Random Forests: Predictor importance for Regression Trees

2009-04-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
Yes, you've got it! Cheers, Andy From: Behalf Of Dimitri > > Hello! > > I think I am relatively clear on how predictor importance (the first > one) is calculated by Random Forests for a Classification tree: > > Importance of predictor P1 when the response variable is categorical: > > 1. For

[R] Random Forests: Predictor importance for Regression Trees

2009-04-20 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Hello! I think I am relatively clear on how predictor importance (the first one) is calculated by Random Forests for a Classification tree: Importance of predictor P1 when the response variable is categorical: 1. For out-of-bag (oob) cases, randomly permute their values on predictor P1 and then