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A Review on Random Forest: An Ensemble Classifier

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Ensemble classification is an information mining approach which utilizes various classifiers that cooperate for distinguishing the class label for new unlabeled thing from accumulation. Arbitrary Forest approach joins a few randomized choice trees and totals their forecasts by averaging. It has grabbed well-known attention from the community of research because of its high accuracy and superiority which additionally increase the performance. Now in this paper, we take a gander at improvements of Random Forest from history to till date. Our approach is to take a recorded view on the improvement of this prominently effective classification procedure. To begin with history of Random Forest to main technique proposed by Breiman then successful applications that utilized Random Forest and finally some comparison with other classifiers. This paper is proposed to give non specialists simple access to the principle thoughts of random forest.

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Parmar, A., Katariya, R., Patel, V. (2019). A Review on Random Forest: An Ensemble Classifier. In: Hemanth, J., Fernando, X., Lafata, P., Baig, Z. (eds) International Conference on Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things (ICICI) 2018. ICICI 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03146-6_86

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