Identifying variables in Boosting Trees

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Hi,

I would like to know what variables are finally used in the determination of a boosting process in decision tree analysis:

boosting learner loop star-decision tree learner-decision tree predictor-boosting learner loop end.

Is the result transparent?

Thank you very much.

 

 

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Hi Svalerov,

I'm not sure if I understand your question. The output of the boosting is a table of weighted models  (also called weak classifiers) which are then combined to a global model (ensemble). The weights of the models are determined using a variant of AdaBoost, called AdaBoost.SAMME which reweights the instances during training in each iteration. Instances which are classified correctly by the ensemble in the current iteration have a lower weight, instances which are classified obtain a higher weight. Like that instances which are harder to classify will have more influence on the selection of the next weak classifeir.

Does this help?

Best,

Christian

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Hi,

This may help, too (taken from https://www.knime.org/summit2016):

16:45 – 17:30 Special Session:

  • Dean Abbott (Abbott Analytics): Measuring Variable Importance with Target Shuffling
     

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Works for any model!

Cheers
E