David Muchlinski, David Siroky, Jingrui He, Matthew Kocher, Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data, Political Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1 ...

A random forest (RF) predictor is an ensemble of individual tree predictors. As part of their construction, RF predictors naturally lead to a dissimilarity measure between the observations. One can ...

We test the model in simulation experiments and show that the mixed random forest approach improves detection power compared with established approaches.

On the other hand, random forest and bagging tree regression models seem to have a good reputation among machine learning practitioners (most of my colleagues at least) because the models often work ...