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How to build a regression tree over binary variables?

asked 2012-07-10 07:18:04 -0600

Niu ZhiHeng gravatar image

updated 2012-07-10 07:44:24 -0600

Let's say I have a training set {yi,xi}N with yi>0 and xi a vector of binary variables xik∈{0,1}.

Which is the best way to build a regression tree with selected variables? Should I use CvDTree or implement my own regression tree?

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answered 2012-07-10 10:34:33 -0600

Maria Dimashova gravatar image

updated 2012-07-11 02:09:50 -0600

Kirill Kornyakov gravatar image

CvDTree is suitable for your task. It supports category (so binary too) and ordered variables, classification and regression problems. To build a tree you should use one of the CvDTree::train() methods, see doc. For example, for the first version of train method from the doc you can:

  1. Load your variables to the trainData matrix of CV_32FC1 type, each row of which is a one sample variables;
  2. Set tflag to CV_ROW_SAMPLE. It means that the each sample variables are located on the row in trainData.
  3. Load your vector of responses yi to the 'responses' matrix of CV_32FC1 type.
  4. Pass empty matrices for varIdx and sampleIdx parameters. That means that all variables and all samples will used in the training.
  5. Create varType matrix of CV_8UC1 type, rows count = 1, cols count = variable_count + 1 (the last "+1" is for response type). Set CV_VAR_ORDERED (it's 0) and CV_VAR_CATEGORICAL (it's 1) for ordered and categorical variables respectively. For you task it will something like this [1,..1, 0].
  6. Set empty mask for missingDataMask parameter if there are not missing values in your sample variables.
  7. Fill 'params'. See doc. It's more complete than the doc for CvDTree::train().

Now you can run training a regression tree for your data.

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Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions and detailed descriptions. Appreciate!

Niu ZhiHeng gravatar imageNiu ZhiHeng ( 2012-07-11 01:35:04 -0600 )edit

I have found an example of how to use OpenCV RF for classification, which gives quite detailed explanation on how to set the params. link to code

However what I am not sure about is how these params would reflect if my problem is of regression. Can you please let me know how this can be done?

masad801 gravatar imagemasad801 ( 2014-06-20 05:54:48 -0600 )edit

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