On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Weiwei Shi wrote:

> n-fold cv is easy to be implemented in R by yourself. you can create
> 10 folds' samples by yourself and disable cv in rpart. Then you can
> use the same sample sets to compare different methods.

BUT, rpart uses CV to select the cost-complexity parameter, so you need 
not to disable its internal CV or you are not using rpart.  CV for 
parameter tuning and CV for validation are not the same thing.

There are examples of using n-fold CV for validation, including with 
trees, in MASS4.

>
> HTH
>
> weiwei
>
> On 12/28/06, Pedro Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dear R-list,
>>
>> I am using the rpart/mvpart-package for selecting a right-sized 
>> regression tree by 10-fold cross-validation. My question: Is there a 
>> possibility to find out for every observation in which of the ten folds 
>> it is lying? I want to use the same folds for validating another 
>> regression method (moving averages) in order to choose the better one.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Pedro


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