How to Select Variables Using Random Forest - Part 1

Do you want more structured and personalized information? Come take a class with me! Take a self-guided class in Random Forest at https://simplistics.net/course/randomforest/ Take a live class at https://simplistics.net/course/data-visualization-and-random-forest-live-may-2025/ For other classes, see: https://simplistics.net/all-courses/ Learning Objectives: Two methods for variable selection using RF Basics of VSURF Three steps of VSURF Pros/Cons of VSURF Four steps of my approach Pros/Cons of my approach Link to video about RF model: https://youtu.be/VqKExZG1caI Link to VSURF paper: https://lists.nicholas.duke.edu/sympa/arc/mget-help/2017-03/msg00001/Genuer_et_al_2010_Variable_selection_using_random_forests.pdf Link to parametric statistics being useless video: https://youtu.be/qee6b7vl2O0 Link to objectivity paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zx4kv_v1 Link to my two papers about RF and visual partitions: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35915361/ https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/avu2n_v1