My question is more along the lines of will the DT classifier falsely infer an ordering?
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> J. Andrew Howe, PhD www.andrewhowe.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/ahowe42 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Howe12/ I live to learn, so I can learn to live. - me <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Olivier Grisel <olivier.gri...@ensta.org> wrote: > For large enough models (e.g. random forests or gradient boosted trees > ensembles) I would definitely recommend arbitrary integer coding for > the categorical variables. > > Try both, use cross-validation and see for yourself. > > -- > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > scikit-learn@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn >
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