[R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2014-07-26 Thread Bruce.W Morlan
Absolutely, even though the seed means the random number sequence starts in the same place, the sequence generated will certainly drift in different directions on different precision machines. -- Information (and analysis) is power, and I am all about Power to the People. [[alternative

Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2011-03-03 Thread Patrick Connolly
-project.org; Ridgeway, Greg | Sent: Fri Feb 25 22:16:02 2011 | Subject: Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit) | | Hi Axel, | | I do not have a nice explanation why the results differ off the top of | my head. I can say I can replicate what you get on 32/64 (both | Windows 7) bit

Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2011-02-28 Thread Guelman, Leo
Subject: Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit) Hi Axel, I do not have a nice explanation why the results differ off the top of my head. I can say I can replicate what you get on 32/64 (both Windows 7) bit with the development version of R and gbm_1.6-3.1. Here is an even simpler example

Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2011-02-26 Thread Ridgeway, Greg
ideas? Greg - Original Message - From: Joshua Wiley jwiley.ps...@gmail.com To: Axel Urbiz axel.ur...@gmail.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org R-help@r-project.org; Ridgeway, Greg Sent: Fri Feb 25 22:16:02 2011 Subject: Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit) Hi Axel, I do not have

[R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2011-02-25 Thread Axel Urbiz
Dear List, The gbm package on Win 7 produces different results for the relative importance of input variables in R 32-bit relative to R 64-bit. Any idea why? Any idea which one is correct? Based on this example, it looks like the relative importance of 2 perfectly correlated predictors is

Re: [R] Reproducibility issue in gbm (32 vs 64 bit)

2011-02-25 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Axel, I do not have a nice explanation why the results differ off the top of my head. I can say I can replicate what you get on 32/64 (both Windows 7) bit with the development version of R and gbm_1.6-3.1. Here is an even simpler example that shows the difference: gbmfit - gbm(1:50 ~