Statistical Estimation with Random Forests

Statistical Estimation with Random Forests

Neyman Seminar
Feb 24, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Stefan Wager, Stanford University
Random forests, introduced by Breiman (2001), are among the most widely used machine learning algorithms today, with applications in fields as varied as ecology, genetics, and remote sensing. Random forests have been found empirically to fit complex interactions in high dimensions, all while remaining strikingly resilient to overfitting. In principle, these qualities ought to also make random...