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Table 2 Machine Learning parameter values (p= the number of input variables)

From: A comparison of machine learning and Bayesian modelling for molecular serotyping

Parameter name

Step 1 training

Step 2 training

Package defaults

GBM

   

Ntrees

50

50

50

Learn_rate

0.1

0.1

0.1

Max_depth

25

5

5

Min_rows

100

10

10

Balance_classes

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

Random Forest

   

Ntrees

5000

100

50

Stopping_rounds

2000

  

Max_depth

100

20

20

Stopping_tolerance

1e-20

  

Mtries

100

200

\(\sqrt {p}=21\)

Balance_classes

TRUE

FALSE

FALSE