For anyone who is knowledgeable about the randomForest package in R, I have
a question:

When I look at the variable importance for data, I see that my response
variable is included along with my predictor variables. That is, I am
getting a MeanDecreaseGini for my response variable, and therefore it seems
as though it is being treated as a predictor variable.

my code (just in case it helps) :
comm.RF<-randomForest(model.data,y=model.data$Comm_Heir,mtry=8,importance=T)

Apologies if it's a stupid question, but I'm new to randomForests. Hopefully
that makes sense and if anyone can let me know how remedy this situation, I
would be so grateful.

Cheers!

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

