Random forest
FRM Part 1 glossary · Financial Markets And Products
Definition
An ensemble of decision trees trained on bootstrap samples with random feature subsets.
Random forest in plain English
Random feature selection decorrelates trees, so averaging reduces variance more effectively than ordinary bagging when dominant predictors exist.
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