Chunk #57 — The Methods — How Do Ensemble Methods Work?

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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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The rationale behind ensemble methods is to base the prediction on a whole set of classification or regression trees, rather than a single tree. The related methods bagging and random forests vary only in the way this set of trees is constructed.