[R] Regarding randomForest regression

[Stefan MA (MOH)]

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 12:26 AM
To: shameek ghosh <shameek09 at gmail.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Regarding randomForest regression


On Mar 8, 2012, at 5:10 AM, shameek ghosh wrote:

> Sir,
>     This query is related to randomForest regression using R.
>
>     I have a dataset called qsar.arff which I use as my training set
> and
> then I run the following function -
>
>
> rf=randomForest(x=train,y=trainy,xtest=train,ytest=trainy,ntree=500)
>
>    where train is a matrix of predictors without the column to be
> predicted(the target column), trainy is the target column.I feed the
> same
> data for xtest and ytest too as shown.
>
>    On verifying I found, rf$mse[500] and rf$test$mse[500] are
> different(the r-squares are also different).The predicted values of
> the
> training target column and testing target column are also different.
>
>   Should this happen , since I am using the training dataset as the
> testing dataset? I expected that the test and training predictions
> would be
> the same.

My inference from its name  _random_Forest, was that it was _not_
"deterministic forest".

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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