Variable selection from random forests: application to gene expression data

Details Variable selection from random forests: application to gene expression data Variable selection from random forests: application to gene expression data

2005-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0503025v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

Eliminated sections on variable selection with "screeplots"

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Random forest is a classification algorithm well suited for microarray data: it shows excellent performance even when most predictive variables are noise, can be used when the number of variables is much larger than the number of observations, and returns measures of variable importance. Thus, it is important to understand the performance of random forest with microarray data and its use for gene selection. We first show the effects of changes in parameters of random forest on the prediction error. Then we present an approach for gene selection that uses measures of variable importance and error rate, and is targeted towards the selection of small sets of genes. Using simulated and real microarray data, we show that the gene selection procedure yields small sets of genes while preserving predictive accuracy. Availability: All code is available as an R package, varSelRF, from CRAN, http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html, or from the supplementary material page. Supplementary information: http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/Papers/rfVS/randomForestVarSel.html

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