Variable selection by random forests using data with missing values

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2014.06.017MaRDI QIDQ1623702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Hapfelmeier, K. Ulm

Publication date 23 November 2018

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2014.06.017

zbMATH Keywords

random forestsvariable importancevariable selectionmissing datamultiple imputationcomplete case analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

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• C4.5
• MICE
• GeneSrF
• party
• R

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