RE: [R] randomForest: more than one variable needed?

2004-04-13 Thread Philippe Grosjean
I don't see much why to use random forest with only one predictive variable! Recall that random forest grow trees with a random subset of variables in competition for growing each node of the trees in the forest... How do you make such a random subset with only one predictive variable? there is no

Re: [R] randomForest: more than one variable needed?

2004-04-13 Thread Hui Han
I agree with you about the less practical meaning of this sample of the extreme case. I am just curious about the grammar syntax of randomForest. Thanks. Hui On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:29:06PM +0200, Philippe Grosjean wrote: I don't see much why to use random forest with only one predictive

RE: [R] randomForest: more than one variable needed?

2004-04-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
With only one `x' variable, RF will be identical to bagging. This looks like a bug. I will check it out. Andy From: Hui Han I agree with you about the less practical meaning of this sample of the extreme case. I am just curious about the grammar syntax of randomForest. Thanks. Hui

Re: [R] randomForest: more than one variable needed?

2004-04-13 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Hui Han wrote: Hi, I am doing feature selection for my dataset. The following is the extreme case where only one feature is left. But I got the error below. So my question is that do I have to use more than one features? sample.subset udomain.edu hpclass 1