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Bagging & Random Forests: Majority Vote and Out-of-Bag Rows

Lesson 6 of 816 minLab

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In this lesson

You combine five trees into a random forest: count the votes, turn them into a probability and a prediction, show that the forest beats every single tree, and count the out-of-bag rows of a bootstrap sample.

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  1. Entropy & Gini: How Mixed Is a Node?Lab13 min Locked
  2. Information Gain: Scoring Candidate Splits with COUNTIFSLab16 min Locked
  3. The Best Numeric Threshold: Trying Every Cut-PointLab15 min Locked
  4. Growing a Two-Level Tree: Leaves & Nested IF PredictionsLab17 min Locked
  5. Overfitting & Pruning: Train vs Test Accuracy by DepthLab16 min Locked
  6. Bagging & Random Forests: Majority Vote and Out-of-Bag RowsLab16 min Locked
  7. Gradient Boosting by Hand: Residuals, Stumps & a Learning RateLab18 min Locked
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