Variable Importance Assessment in Regression: Linear Regression versus Random Forest
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- 1 November 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 63 (4), 308-319
- https://doi.org/10.1198/tast.2009.08199
Abstract
Relative importance of regressor variables is an old topic that still awaits a satisfactory solution. When interest is in attributing importance in linear regression, averaging over orderings metho...Keywords
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