I think the origin of the claim is from Leo Breiman himself [0]. I’m not sure if he discusses this in any papers, but probably. Sibling comments have some nuan

I think the origin of the claim is from Leo Breiman himself [0]. I’m not sure if he discusses this in any papers, but probably. Sibling comments have some nuanced discussion of overfitting in tree-based models 0: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home.htm#remarks https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home...