Using Random Forests to help explain why MLB players make the Hall of…

Using Random Forests to Help Explain Why MLB Players Make the Hall of Fame

How local importance scores can be used to obtain class-wise overall variable importance to help understand the why.

Introduction

Last fall I wrote an article titled: Rfviz: An Interactive Visualization Package for Interpreting Random Forests in R. That article is a tutorial for a visualization tool in R. I wanted to give an option for not using the visualization …

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