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Table 4 Simulation design of responses for Scenario 3 and 4

From: Intervention in prediction measure: a new approach to assessing variable importance for random forests

Variables

Y 1|X 1=0

Y 1|X 1=1

Y 2|X 1=0

Y 2|X 1=1

Scenario 3

2 + 2 ·X 2 + N(0,0.1)

3 + 4 ·X 2 + N(0,0.2)

2 + 3 ·X 2 + N(0,0.15)

3 + 5 ·X 2 + N(0,0.2)

Scenario 4

idem

4 + N(0,0.2)

idem

5 + N(0,0.2)

  1. The variables are sampled independently from the following distributions. N(μ,σ) stands for the normal distribution with mean μ and standard deviation σ
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BMC Bioinformatics

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