summary.varSelRFBoot: Summary of a varSelRFBoot object

In varSelRF: Variable Selection using Random Forests

Summary of a varSelRFBoot object

Description

Returns error rate and stability measures of a varSelRFBoot object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'varSelRFBoot'
summary(object, return.model.freqs = FALSE,
                     return.class.probs = TRUE,
                     return.var.freqs.b.models = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

object	An object of class varSelRFBoot, as returned from varSelRFBoot.
return.model.freqs	If TRUE return a table with the frequencies of the final "models" (sets of selected variables) over all bootstrap replications.
return.class.probs	If TRUE return average class probabilities for each sample based on the out-of-bag probabilites (see varSelRFBoot, the prob.predictions component).
return.var.freqs.b.models	If TRUE return the frequencies of all variables selected from the bootstrap replicates.
...	Not used.

Value

If return.class.probs = TRUE a matrix with the average class probabilities for each sample based on the out-of-bag probabilites.

Regardless of that setting, print out several summaries:

Summaries related to the "simplified" random forest on the original data	Such as the number and identity of the variables selected.
Summaries related to the error rate estimate	Such as the .632+ estimate, and some of its components
Summaries related to the stability (uniqueness) of the results obtained	Such as the frequency of the selected variables in the bootstrap runs, the frequency of the selected variables in the boostrap runs that are also among the variables selected from the complete run, the overlap of the bootstrap forests with the forest from the original data set (see varSelRF for the definition of overlap), and (optionally) the frequency of the "models", where a model is the set of variables selected in any particular run.

Author(s)

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte [e-mail]

References

Breiman, L. (2001) Random forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.

Diaz-Uriarte, R. , Alvarez de Andres, S. (2006) Gene selection and classification of microarray data using random forest. BMC Bioinformatics, 7, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1186/1471-2105-7-3")}

Efron, B. & Tibshirani, R. J. (1997) Improvements on cross-validation: the .632+ bootstrap method. J. American Statistical Association, 92, 548–560.

See Also

randomForest, varSelRF, varSelRFBoot, plot.varSelRFBoot,

Examples

## Not run: 
## This is a small example, but can take some time.

x <- matrix(rnorm(25 * 30), ncol = 30)
x[1:10, 1:2] <- x[1:10, 1:2] + 2
cl <- factor(c(rep("A", 10), rep("B", 15)))

rf.vs1 <- varSelRF(x, cl, ntree = 200, ntreeIterat = 100,
                   vars.drop.frac = 0.2)
rf.vsb <- varSelRFBoot(x, cl,
                       bootnumber = 10,
                       usingCluster = FALSE,
                       srf = rf.vs1)
rf.vsb
summary(rf.vsb)
plot(rf.vsb)

## End(Not run)

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