IntegratedMRF (version 1.1.9)

Node_cost: Information Gain

Description

Compute the cost function of a tree node

Usage

Node_cost(y, Inv_Cov_Y, Command)

Arguments

y

Output Features for the samples of the node

Inv_Cov_Y

Inverse of Covariance matrix of Output Response matrix for MRF(Input [0 0;0 0] for RF)

Command

1 for univariate Regression Tree (corresponding to RF) and 2 for Multivariate Regression Tree (corresponding to MRF)

Value

cost or entropy of samples in a node of a tree

Details

In multivariate trees (MRF) node cost is measured as the sum of squares of the Mahalanobis distance to capture the correlations in the data whereas in univariate trees node cost is measured as the sum of Euclidean distance square. Mahalanobis Distance captures the distance of the sample point from the mean of the node along the principal component axes.

References

Segal, Mark, and Yuanyuan Xiao. "Multivariate random forests." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1.1 (2011): 80-87.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(IntegratedMRF)
y=matrix(runif(10*2),10,2)
Inv_Cov_Y=solve(cov(y))
Command=2
#Command=2 for MRF and 1 for RF
#This function calculates information gain of a node
Cost=Node_cost(y,Inv_Cov_Y,Command)
# }