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Table 6 Distribution (in percentage) of selections for variable selection methods in Scenario 2

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

Variable

X 1

X 2

X 3

X 4

X 5

X 6

X 7

X 8

X 9

X 10

X 11

X 12

varSelRF

98

97

90

87

82

63

6

2

2

2

1

1

varSelMD (mtry = 3)

97

97

74

62

85

70

3

0

0

0

0

0

varSelMD (mtry = 12)

79

76

48

30

96

92

21

2

5

1

5

3

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