That's not how RF works at all. The setting of mtry is irrelevant to this.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of matt Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:22 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Random forests prediction But shouldn't it be resolved when I set mtry to the maximum number of variables? Then the model explores all the variables for the next step, so it will still be able to find the better ones? And then in the later steps it could use the (less important) variables. Matthijs -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Random-forests-prediction-tp4627409p4629944.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
