Chunk #132 — Features and Pitfalls — Scaled and Unscaled Importance Measures

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An introduction to recursive partitioning: rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests.

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Therefore, we suggest not to interpret or compare the absolute values of the importance measures, not even the z-scores, but rely only on a descriptive ranking of the predictor variables.