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Formal Hypothesis Tests for Additive Structure in Random Forests
Lucas Mentch, Giles Hooker
While statistical learning methods have proved powerful tools for predictive modeling, the black-box nature of the models they produce can severely limit their interpretability and…
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Quantifying Uncertainty in Random Forests via Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests
Lucas Mentch, Giles Hooker
This work develops formal statistical inference procedures for machine learning ensemble methods. Ensemble methods based on bootstrapping, such as bagging and random forests, have…