Ensemble pruning deals with the selection of base learners prior to combination in order to improve prediction accuracy … and efficiency. In the ensemble literature, it has been pointed out that in order for an ensemble classifier to achieve … higher prediction accuracy, it is critical for the ensemble classifier to consist of accurate classifiers which at the same …

In the context of binary classification with continuous predictors, we proove two properties concerning the connections …

classification technique (conditional inference tree and random forest) to decipher the relevance and relative importance of various …