Hello All,
can one of you explain me understandably what the #candidates (level x) are in the Random Forest Learner analysis ?
Probably this is very simple, but I just don’t get it…
Is it possible that this is the number of trees in which an attribute was included at all? If so, isn’t the Random Forest Learner always using all attributes/variables?
Hi @Jana_Tuerlich. In Random Forest a subset of the attributes is chosen at random. In the Description window, output port you can find the explanation:
“#candidates (level x) is the number of times an attribute was in the attribute sample for level x (in a random forest setup these samples differ from node to node)”
