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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R
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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

by Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Random Forests

Chapter 3, Bagging, generalized the decision tree using the bootstrap principle. Before we embark on a journey with random forests, we will quickly review the history of decision trees and highlight some of their advantages and drawbacks. The invention of decision trees followed through a culmination of papers, and the current form of the trees can be found in detail in Breiman, et al. (1984). Breiman's method is popularly known as Classification and Regression Trees, aka CART. Around the late 1970s and early 1980s, Quinlan invented an algorithm called C4.5 independently of Breiman. For more information, see Quinlan (1984). To a large extent, the current form of decision trees, bagging, and random forests is owed to Breiman. A ...

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