We test the model in simulation experiments and show that the mixed random forest approach improves detection power compared with established approaches.

A random forest (RF) predictor is an ensemble of individual tree predictors. As part of their construction, RF predictors naturally lead to a dissimilarity measure between the observations. One can ...

David Muchlinski, David Siroky, Jingrui He, Matthew Kocher, Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data, Political Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1 ...