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There are. It's all about variance reduction. See the Breiman's paper on Bagging. There's nothing special about random forest though (apart from the fact that a
by mziel 11y ago
There are. It's all about variance reduction. See the Breiman's paper on Bagging. There's nothing special about random forest though (apart from the fact that a decision tree is a good learner, because of the nonlinearities for example), you can you ensemble learning with any "basic" learner.
- dasboth 11y agoI read Breiman's random forest paper, but I'll give his others a read too. Does the variance reduction effect apply to any ensemble method then?