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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Classification and interaction in random forests.

Danielle Denisko, Michael M Hoffman

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Danielle DeniskoDepartment of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1L7.ORCID 0000-0002-8544-0026
Michael M HoffmanDepartment of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1L7; michael.hoffman@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-4517-1562

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID29440440
PMCPMC5828645

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