Bootstrap, Bagging, and Random Forests

Learn about Bootstrap, bagging, and random forest.

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Let's cover the theoretical background and critical concepts governing decision tree learning and random forest.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a widely applicable and powerful statistical tool that can quantify the uncertainty associated with a given estimator or statistical learning method. Consider that we have a dataset with 100 values and we want to estimate the sample’s mean. This can be done as follows:

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