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Yannick Rothacher; Carolin Strobl – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
Random forests are a nonparametric machine learning method, which is currently gaining popularity in the behavioral sciences. Despite random forests' potential advantages over more conventional statistical methods, a remaining question is how reliably informative predictor variables can be identified by means of random forests. The present study…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Selection Criteria, Behavioral Sciences, Reliability