Re: [R] Error on random forest variable importance estimates

2010-08-08 Thread Pierre Dubath
Hello Andy, Thank you for your quick and helpful reply. I will try to follow your suggestions. Also, thank you for the R implementation of random forest. It is very useful for our work. Best, Pierre Liaw, Andy wrote: From: Pierre Dubath Hello, I am using the R randomForest package to c

Re: [R] Error on random forest variable importance estimates

2010-08-06 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Pierre Dubath > > Hello, > > I am using the R randomForest package to classify variable > stars. I have > a training set of 1755 stars described by (too) many > variables. Some of > these variables are highly correlated. > > I believe that I understand how randomForest works and how >

[R] Error on random forest variable importance estimates

2010-08-06 Thread Pierre Dubath
Hello, I am using the R randomForest package to classify variable stars. I have a training set of 1755 stars described by (too) many variables. Some of these variables are highly correlated. I believe that I understand how randomForest works and how the variable importance are evaluated (thr