Use and misuse of random forest variable importance metrics in medicine: demonstrations through incident stroke prediction

Machine learning tools such as random forests provide important opportunities for modeling large, complex modern data generated in medicine. Unfortunately, when it comes to understanding why machine learning mode...

Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - June 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Meredith L. Wallace, Lucas Mentch, Bradley J. Wheeler, Amanda L. Tapia, Marc Richards, Siyu Zhou, Lixia Yi, Susan Redline and Daniel J. Buysse Tags: Research Source Type: research