Random forest versus logistic regression: a large-scale benchmark experiment

R Couronné, P Probst, AL Boulesteix - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background and goal The Random Forest (RF) algorithm for regression and
classification has considerably gained popularity since its introduction in 2001. Meanwhile, it …

The parameter sensitivity of random forests

BFF Huang, PC Boutros - BMC bioinformatics, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The Random Forest (RF) algorithm for supervised machine learning is
an ensemble learning method widely used in science and many other fields. Its popularity …

Overview of random forest methodology and practical guidance with emphasis on computational biology and bioinformatics

AL Boulesteix, S Janitza, J Kruppa… - … Reviews: Data Mining …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The random forest (RF) algorithm by Leo Breiman has become a standard data analysis tool
in bioinformatics. It has shown excellent performance in settings where the number of …

Variable importance‐weighted random forests

Y Liu, H Zhao - Quantitative Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Random Forests is a popular classification and regression method that has
proven powerful for various prediction problems in biological studies. However, its …

Multivariate random forests

M Segal, Y Xiao - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: Data mining …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Random forests have emerged as a versatile and highly accurate classification and
regression methodology, requiring little tuning and providing interpretable outputs. Here, we …

Random forest for bioinformatics

Y Qi - Ensemble machine learning: Methods and applications, 2012 - Springer
Modern biology has experienced an increased use of machine learning techniques for large
scale and complex biological data analysis. In the area of Bioinformatics, the Random Forest …

Guided random forest in the RRF package

H Deng - arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0237, 2013 - arxiv.org
Random Forest (RF) is a powerful supervised learner and has been popularly used in many
applications such as bioinformatics. In this work we propose the guided random forest (GRF) …

[HTML][HTML] Search for the smallest random forest

H Zhang, M Wang - Statistics and its Interface, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Random forests have emerged as one of the most commonly used nonparametric statistical
methods in many scientific areas, particularly in analysis of high throughput genomic data. A …

[HTML][HTML] Random forests for genomic data analysis

X Chen, H Ishwaran - Genomics, 2012 - Elsevier
Random forests (RF) is a popular tree-based ensemble machine learning tool that is highly
data adaptive, applies to “large p, small n” problems, and is able to account for correlation as …

GeneSrF and varSelRF: a web-based tool and R package for gene selection and classification using random forest

R Diaz-Uriarte - BMC bioinformatics, 2007 - Springer
Background Microarray data are often used for patient classification and gene selection. An
appropriate tool for end users and biomedical researchers should combine user friendliness …