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Feature Request: Use of the median instead of the mean to aggregate the individual tree predictions. #740

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nikosGeography opened this issue Aug 28, 2024 · 1 comment

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@nikosGeography
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"Classical" random forest uses the mean to aggregate the individual tree predictions. I was wondering if it make sense to provide the user with alternative methods, such as the median, for the aggregation. For example, a paper that utilizes the median is: "Robustness of random forests for regression". Do you think this is something that will benefit the users of the ranger package? If not, feel free to close the issue.

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Yes, that's a good idea and shouldn't be very hard to implement.

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