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What is the OOB error value?
What is the OOB error value?
FireflySoul
Sun Oct 20 2024
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I'm trying to understand the concept of OOB error value. Could someone explain what it is and how it's used in machine learning, specifically in the context of random forests?
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Rosalia
Mon Oct 21 2024
The OOB error serves as an unbiased estimate of the Random Forest classifier's generalization error. It helps to assess the model's performance on unseen data, providing insights into its overfitting or underfitting tendencies.
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GwanghwamunPride
Mon Oct 21 2024
The concept of out-of-bag (OOB) error is central to understanding the performance evaluation of Random Forest classifiers. It represents a unique way of assessing the predictive accuracy of the model without the need for a separate validation set.
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EclipseRider
Mon Oct 21 2024
In Random Forest, each tree is trained on a bootstrapped sample of the original dataset, which means that some observations are not used in the training of a particular tree. These observations, which are left out, form the OOB sample for that tree.
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Lucia
Mon Oct 21 2024
By monitoring the OOB error during the training process, one can identify the optimal number of trees to include in the forest. Adding more trees can potentially reduce the OOB error but at the cost of increased computational complexity.
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Davide
Mon Oct 21 2024
The OOB error is then calculated by using each tree's predictions on its corresponding OOB sample. Essentially, it measures the average error rate for predictions made by trees on data they haven't seen during training.
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