Re: [R] Random Forest, Giving More Importance to Some Data

2013-03-24 Thread Wensui Liu
your question doesn't seem to specifically related to either R or random forest. instead, it is about how to assign weights to training observations. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: > Dear All, > I am using randomForest to predict the final selling price of some items. > A

[R] Random Forest, Giving More Importance to Some Data

2013-03-24 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I am using randomForest to predict the final selling price of some items. As it often happens, I have a lot of (noisy) historical data, but the question is not so much about data cleaning. The dataset for which I need to carry out some predictions are fairly recent sales or even some