Table 5 Relative importance of variables in random forest models as measured by Gini index (higher is more important).

Variable

w. DS

w/o DS

w. DS

w/o DS

w. DS

w/o DS

Relative height

60.33

79.86

81.26

100.96

101.99

119.94

Break

39.98

51.92

48.57

65.75

60.33

72.19

Close to other candidates

8.27

10.83

4.18

6.90

6.19

8.20

Overlap with CNAs

17.21

24.15

17.87

27.10

26.16

34.09

Database score

165.44

206.34

108.89

Overlap w. other pts: %

70.11

107.05

95.23

129.03

74.62

93.67

Matching bkpts in other: %

86.67

108.45

94.02

135.80

116.34

116.83

Overlap with other pts

39.91

59.70

42.18

68.84

86.42

98.28

Closeness to centromere

4.37

5.82

3.74

6.07

4.64

7.17

Closeness to telomere

4.65

6.53

3.31

5.52

6.04

7.11

Length

112.20

133.69

64.26

92.25

170.78

182.46

Dat. score of other cand.

30.23

32.57

44.51

Percent of Normal

64.10

84.05

55.97

76.26

77.18

93.82

Segmental duplication

3.19

7.77

3.48

9.53

5.16

9.34

Sign

7.84

11.01

8.19

12.42

22.59

27.77

Surrounded by Normals

1.87

4.67

5.03

6.66

3.34

5.21