Chunk #77 — The Methods — Predictions from Ensembles of Trees

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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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In our artificial example, bagging, and even a single tree, would actually perform equally well, because the interaction of friends_smoke and alcohol_per_month, that was already correctly identified by the single tree, is the only effect that was induced in the data.