variable importance

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How did u calculate the variable importance? My data set is of binary form? I 
want to know which the score  of importance of variables .

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nira...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2012 at 7:38

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does this help
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home.htm#varimp

overall importance of variable k over the entire forest = sum(tree_i accuracy 
on oob data - tree_i accuracy after permuting the values of variable k in the 
oob data)

Original comment by abhirana on 29 Apr 2012 at 7:40

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How to permute the values of variable k? i am not using categorical variable.

Original comment by nira...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2012 at 8:00

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when you ask for variable importance it is done for all variables.

Original comment by abhirana on 29 Apr 2012 at 8:03