Tim, Yes, RF's are ensemble learners, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't wrap them up with other classifiers to have a higher level ensemble.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Tim Peut <t...@timpeut.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info and suggestions everyone. > > On 19 October 2013 01:00, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM, j.barrett Strausser < > j.barrett.straus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How difficult would it be to wrap the RF classifier into an ensemble > > learner? > > > It is callable. Should be relatively easy. > > I'm still becoming familiar with machine learning terminology so please > forgive my ignorance. I thought that random forests are, by nature, > ensemble learners? What exactly do you mean by this? >