Module 1: Random Forest Theory
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<h2>How Random Forests Work</h2>
<p>Random Forest is an ensemble learning method that operates by constructing a multitude of <b>Decision Trees</b> at training time. It corrects for the habit of decision trees overfitting to their training set.</p>
<h3>Key Concepts:</h3>
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<li><b>Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating):</b> Random forests allow each tree to pick only a random sample of the data. This reduces variance.</li>
<li><b>Feature Randomness:</b> Each tree can only pick from a random subset of features. This forces trees to be more diverse.</li>
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<div class="alert alert-info"><b>Note:</b> A single decision tree has high variance (it overfits). A random forest has lower variance but slightly higher bias.</div>
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How Random Forests Work Random Forest is an ensemble learning method that operates by constructing a multitude of Decision Trees at training time. It corrects for the habit of decision trees overfitting to their training set. Read the full notes above for the details.
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