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G-2010-51

Mixed Effects Random Forest for Clustered Data

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This paper presents an extension of the well known random forest method to the case of clustered data. The proposed "mixed effects random forest" method is implemented using a standard random forest algorithm within the framework of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed mixed effects random forest method provide substantial improvements over standard random forest when the random effects are non negligible.

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Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(6), 1313–1328, 2012 BibTeX reference