Re: [R] Logistic regression problem

2008-09-30 Thread Jason Jones Medical Informatics
So...I wouldn't suggest the trying all possible logistic models approach either and I'm not sure exactly what your goals are in modeling. However, I've been fiddling around with the variable importance (varimp) functions that come with the randomForest and party packages. The idea is to get

[R] varimp in party (or randomForest)

2008-09-25 Thread Jason Jones Medical Informatics
Hi, There is an excellent article at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/307 by Stroble, et al. describing variable importance in random forests. Does anyone have any suggestions (besides imputation or removal of cases) for how to deal with data that *have* missing data for predictor