I agree with Christian. I have been using fraction of trees voting for the 
prediction as an indicator of model confidence (and thus some kind of measure 
of applicability domain) for many years.

This is, by the way, how the confidence values produced by the rdkit's models 
are calculated

-greg

On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Christian Kramer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> I haven't tested it with the scikit-learn libraries yet, but from my 
> experience the fraction of trees predicting a specific class is a good 
> indicator for how much you can trust the predictions. in scikit-learn this 
> should be available via the predict_proba(X) function as described here:
> 
> http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/generated/sklearn.ensemble.RandomForestClassifier.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> 
> Am 19.03.2013 um 14:23 schrieb [email protected]:
> 
>> Dear RDKitters,
>> 
>> anyone worked with RDKit (data processing & descriptor calculation) & 
>> scikit-learn (train Random Forests) and could share some experiences with 
>> setting up a domain of application?
>> 
>> Cheers & Thanks so far,
>> Paul
>> 
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