2012/1/2 Gilles Louppe <[email protected]>: > >> 5) I think an explanation of "bootstrap" should go in the docs. >> The docstring just states "Whether bootstrap samples are used when >> building trees." >> I don't think this is very helpful since "bootstrap" is quite hard to >> look up for >> an outsider. > > Okay, we should make that more explicit. I didn't realize it was obscure.
You can just say that it's "randomly sampling with replacement samples for the training set" and add a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28statistics%29 Thanks Andy for making the effort to make the doc and default value consistent and Gilles for answering :) Looking forward to reviewing the pull request. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
