[R] random forest application

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi,

This is not an R question, so really not appropriate for the list.

The answer depends on what "worth it" means to you.

There are many applications:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22random+forest%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C39&as_sdtp=

Sarah

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Li, Yan <Yan_Li at ibi.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anyone using random forest for predicting? Some people claimed that it will give more accurate result than decision tree. But considering it builds 500(by default) full trees, is it worth to use random forest to predict instead of decision tree? What typical applications of this algorithm?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Yan
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