Wednesday, September 25, 2013

K-Fold Cross validation: Random Forest vs GBM

K-Fold Cross validation: Random Forest vs GBM from Wallace Campbell on Vimeo.

In this video, I demonstrate how to use k-fold cross validation to obtain a reliable estimate of a model's out of sample predictive accuracy as well as compare two different types of models (a Random Forest and a GBM). I use data Kaggle's Amazon competition as an example.