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Estimating class probabilities in random forests
University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics. University of Skövde, The Informatics Research Centre.
2007 (English)In: ICMLA 2007. Sixth International Conference onMachine Learning and Applications, 2007., IEEE Computer Society, 2007, p. 211-216Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

For both single probability estimation trees (PETs) and ensembles of such trees, commonly employed class probability estimates correct the observed relative class frequencies in each leaf to avoid anomalies caused by small sample sizes. The effect of such corrections in random forests of PETs is investigated, and the use of the relative class frequency is compared to using two corrected estimates, the Laplace estimate and the m-estimate. An experiment with 34 datasets from the UCI repository shows that estimating class probabilities using relative class frequency clearly outperforms both using the Laplace estimate and the m-estimate with respect to accuracy, area under the ROC curve (AUC) and Brier score. Hence, in contrast to what is commonly employed for PETs and ensembles of PETs, these results strongly suggest that a non-corrected probability estimate should be used in random forests of PETs. The experiment further shows that learning random forests of PETs using relative class frequency significantly outperforms learning random forests of classification trees (i.e., trees for which only an unweighted vote on the most probable class is counted) with respect to both accuracy and AUC, but that the latter is clearly ahead of the former with respect to Brier score.

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IEEE Computer Society, 2007. p. 211-216
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Computer Sciences
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Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-1465DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2007.64ISI: 000252793400035Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-47349133606ISBN: 978-0-7695-3069-7 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-1465DiVA, id: diva2:25500
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6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2007;Cincinnati, OH;13 December 2007through15 December 2007
Available from: 2008-09-29 Created: 2008-09-29 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved

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