A Subtle Bias that Could Impact Your Decision Trees and Random Forests

That can be easily eliminated

There is a chance that your decision trees and random forests suffer from a small bias, which can be eliminated with ease, for basically no cost. This is what we explore in this post.

Disclaimer: the post discusses a recent research conducted by the author.

Introduction

Decision trees and random forests are widely adopted classification and regression techniques in machine learning. Decision trees are favored for their interpretability, …

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