varimp.output: Variable importance matrix containing the decrease in...

Description Usage Arguments Value References

View source: R/varimp.output.R

Description

Values of variable 'm' in the oob cases are randomly permuted and R2 obtained through variable-m-permuted oob data is subtracted from R2 obtained on untouched oob data. The average of this number over all the trees in the forest is the raw importance score for variable m.

Usage

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varimp.output(varimp_matrix)

Arguments

varimp_matrix

a matrix containing decrease in predictive accuracy for all variables for each tree

Value

An object of class varimp.output.

References

Strobl, C., Malley, J. and Tutz, G. (2009) An introduction to recursive partitioning: rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests, Psychol Methods, 14, 323-348.


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