Re: [R] Regarding variable importance in the randomForest package

2010-03-16 Thread Liaw, Andy
] On Behalf Of Corinne Staley > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:52 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Regarding variable importance in the randomForest package > > For anyone who is knowledgeable about the randomForest > package in R, I have > a question: > > When I

[R] Regarding variable importance in the randomForest package

2010-03-15 Thread Corinne Staley
For anyone who is knowledgeable about the randomForest package in R, I have a question: When I look at the variable importance for data, I see that my response variable is included along with my predictor variables. That is, I am getting a MeanDecreaseGini for my response variable, and therefore i